In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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.
More Voltaire Quotes
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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Common sense is not so common.
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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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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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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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