We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
VOLTAIREMen will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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