The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
VOLTAIREThe art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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