If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
VOLTAIRESometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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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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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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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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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