Men argue. Nature acts.
VOLTAIREMen will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Common sense is not so common.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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