When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
VOLTAIRELove truth, but pardon error.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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Common sense is not so common.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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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.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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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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