The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIRELiberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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