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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

Voltaire

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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Confidence Destroy Friendship Heart Sex Vanish
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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Body Disease Doctor Drug Humour
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Adsured Person Uncertain
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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Enemy God Grant Humour Prayer Ridiculous
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Lion Myself Obey Rat Species Strong
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Kill Life Love Self Love Time Want
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Age Creation Ideas Live Man Time
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Human Infinity Mathematics Stupidity Truth
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Dead Honesty Live Owe Respect Truth
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Afraid Audience Comdey God Laugh Play
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Respect Stupidity Success World
Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Evil Greatness Labour Preserve Want Wear
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Born Nature Resurrection Surprise
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Dwell Greatness Harm Hurt Misfortune Power
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Aim Discover Goals Goodness Philosophy Practice
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Believe Faith God Invention Necessary Religion

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