One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
VOLTAIREReading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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