Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
VOLTAIREThe happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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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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