In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
VOLTAIREEach 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.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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