Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
VOLTAIRELove truth, but pardon error.
More Voltaire Quotes
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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