Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VOLTAIREThe longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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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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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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