The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
VOLTAIREIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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