Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
VOLTAIREMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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