Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
VOLTAIREI would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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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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