There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VOLTAIREGod is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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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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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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