Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
VOLTAIRELife is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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