Voltaire Quotes

This is no time to be making new enemies.

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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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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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