We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
VOLTAIREBehind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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