Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
VOLTAIRESensual 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.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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