Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
VOLTAIREUncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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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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