To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
VOLTAIREGod is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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