Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
VOLTAIREIf you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
More Voltaire Quotes
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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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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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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 have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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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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