To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
VOLTAIREI have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Each 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.
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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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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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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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