I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
VOLTAIREGod is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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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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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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 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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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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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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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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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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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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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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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