The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIREBehind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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