Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
VOLTAIREOur 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.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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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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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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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.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Common sense is not so common.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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