God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
VOLTAIREOne day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
More Voltaire Quotes
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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 not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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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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