God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIREThe longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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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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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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