It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIREReligion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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