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.
VOLTAIREThe only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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 comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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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 use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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