Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIREIt is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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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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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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