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.
VOLTAIREIt is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
More Voltaire Quotes
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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