One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
VOLTAIREHe must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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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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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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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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