The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
VOLTAIREPrejudices are what fools use for reason.
More Voltaire Quotes
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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 better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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