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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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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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Let us cultivate our garden.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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