History never repeats itself. Man always does.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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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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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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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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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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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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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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