We are rarely proud when we are alone.
VOLTAIREIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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