What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VOLTAIREWhat is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VOLTAIREMeditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
VOLTAIRETo the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIREI have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VOLTAIREIf you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
VOLTAIREMay God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIREI have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
VOLTAIRELove is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
VOLTAIREWhen it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
VOLTAIREIt is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
VOLTAIRELet us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
VOLTAIREGod is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIREWhen a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
VOLTAIREMen will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
VOLTAIRESensual 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.
VOLTAIREI know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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