The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
VOLTAIREIf you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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