Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VOLTAIREThink for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
More Voltaire Quotes
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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