To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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