Tag: Voltaire
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
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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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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.
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Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.
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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
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