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.
VOLTAIREInjustice in the end produces independence.
More Voltaire Quotes
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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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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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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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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