The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
VOLTAIREPrejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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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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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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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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