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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

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.
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Acceptance Alone Decide Game Life Player
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Burn Neighbor Opinion Worth
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Body Disease Doctor Drug Humour
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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Ignorance Path Road Species Stone Walk
Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Comfortable Enlightenment Friendship Reading Soul
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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Awareness Consciousness Infinity Knowledge Meditation
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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Book People Quantity Reading Stupidity Vulgar
Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Deep Enemy Goodness One Liner Perfection
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Believe Brain Confidence Human Man Power
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Bore One Liner Secret Silence Talker
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Decision Goodness Happiness Inspirational Joy Mood
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Lion Myself Obey Rat Species Strong
Common sense is not so common.
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Common Common Sense Deep One Liner
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Change Finding Inspirational Life Pleasant
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Ignorance Intelligence Politics Stupidity Wisdom

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