Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIREIt is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
More Voltaire Quotes
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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 would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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