Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
VOLTAIREMen use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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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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Life 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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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