Tag: Voltaire
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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.
Voltaire
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Voltaire
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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire
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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
Voltaire
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire
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Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.
Voltaire
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Voltaire
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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
Voltaire
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
Voltaire
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Voltaire