It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
VOLTAIREReligion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Common sense is not so common.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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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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Sensual 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.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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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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