Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
VOLTAIREIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
More Voltaire Quotes
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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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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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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