Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
VOLTAIRELet us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
VOLTAIREMeditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
VOLTAIREOne day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
VOLTAIREMen use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
VOLTAIREI would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
VOLTAIREIt is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
VOLTAIREDare to think for yourself.
VOLTAIREMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VOLTAIREEach player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
VOLTAIREI know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
VOLTAIREI have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VOLTAIREIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VOLTAIRELove is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
VOLTAIREHistory never repeats itself. Man always does.
VOLTAIREWe are rarely proud when we are alone.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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