Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VOLTAIREGod is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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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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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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