A THREAD on timeless ideas by Voltaire:
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read!
And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read!
And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals...
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals...
... cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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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.
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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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.
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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