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.
VOLTAIREMan is free at the instant he wants to be.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Despite 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.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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