Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
VOLTAIREThe more a man knows, the less he talks.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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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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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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