Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
VOLTAIRELove is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
VOLTAIREIt is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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.
VOLTAIREDoubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
VOLTAIREMadness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
VOLTAIREIt is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
VOLTAIREReligion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
VOLTAIRESensual 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.
VOLTAIREWhen it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
VOLTAIREI would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
VOLTAIRELet us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
VOLTAIREThe more a man knows, the less he talks.
VOLTAIREMan is free at the instant he wants to be.
VOLTAIREThe longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIREEvery man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
VOLTAIREMeditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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