Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
VOLTAIREI have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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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.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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