We are rarely proud when we are alone.
VOLTAIREHe must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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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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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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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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