Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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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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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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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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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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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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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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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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