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.
VOLTAIREEvery man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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