God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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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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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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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