Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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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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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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