She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
VOLTAIREDiscord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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 an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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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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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Common sense is not so common.
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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.
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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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Men argue. Nature acts.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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