I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
VOLTAIREIn every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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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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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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