We are rarely proud when we are alone.
VOLTAIREWhen a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
More Voltaire Quotes
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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 we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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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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