Injustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIREThose who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
More Voltaire Quotes
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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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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Despite 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 not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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