Voltaire Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Garden Quotes

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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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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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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Paradise is where I am

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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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