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.
VOLTAIREMan is free at the instant he wants to be.
More Voltaire Quotes
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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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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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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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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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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