Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
VOLTAIREIt is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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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.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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 far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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