One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
VOLTAIREOne day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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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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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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