Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
VOLTAIREReading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
More Voltaire Quotes
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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