Men argue. Nature acts.
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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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Each 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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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