We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
VOLTAIREWhat is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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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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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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