God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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If 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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