Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
VOLTAIREDespite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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