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.
VOLTAIREThe longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
More Voltaire Quotes
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Common sense is not so common.
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