Famous Voltaire Quotes
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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
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The best is the enemy of the good.
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England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.
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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
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Clever tyrants are never punished.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
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Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
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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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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
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As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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