The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIREIt is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
More Voltaire Quotes
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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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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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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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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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 succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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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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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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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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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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