The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIREDon’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Dare to think for yourself.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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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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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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