The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIREMeditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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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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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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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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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Common sense is not so common.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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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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