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.
VOLTAIREEach 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.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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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 God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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