It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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More Voltaire Quotes
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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