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.
VOLTAIREMay God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Common sense is not so common.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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