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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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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