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.
VOLTAIREThe happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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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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Men argue. Nature acts.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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 happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Common sense is not so common.
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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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