The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIREDespite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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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 more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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.
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