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.
VOLTAIREDon’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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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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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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