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.
VOLTAIREI have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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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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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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