Voltaire_Quotes

I like some of the quotes, it seems a really good way to round off the reading to a Philosopher. My favourite is along the lines, if you plan a surprise for your wife, plan to be surprised. I also like _ I am very fond of truth but I am less fond of martyrdom.

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Quotes

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
-I personally don't give attach any practical evidential significance to the existence or not existence of God

Judge a ma by his questions rather than his answers

Tears are the silent language of grief

The are of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease
- I think this is now trite given the amount of enlightenment science that is now with s.

it si better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing : It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- I think this now really true with sympathetic mirror neurons, it is a really positive thing

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere
- now this is a really powerful and measured quote

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: bur once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Common sense is not so common

What is tolerance> It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other;s folly - that is the first law of nature.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable .

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and i know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell for loveless hearts.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition , but certainty is absurd.