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.
VOLTAIREWhen it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
More Voltaire Quotes
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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