Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
VOLTAIREBehind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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