It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
VOLTAIRELet us cultivate our garden.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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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 hold a pen is to be at war.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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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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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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 loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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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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