Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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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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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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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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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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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Each 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.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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