No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VOLTAIREWhen a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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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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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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Dare to think for yourself.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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