The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
VOLTAIRELet us cultivate our garden.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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