The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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More Voltaire Quotes
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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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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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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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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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