Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
People will continue to commit atrocities as long as they believe in absurdities.
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.", May 16, 1767)
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
The Dutch fetishes who converted me tell me every Sunday that the blacks and whites are all children of one father, whom they call Adam. As for me, I do not understand anything of genealogies; but if...
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
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