Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
VOLTAIRELife 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.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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