I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
VOLTAIREThe longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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.
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