Voltaire

"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."

- Voltaire

"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by the imagination."

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"The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself."

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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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"Don’t think money does everything, or you are going to do everything for money."

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"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it."

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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

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"What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."

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"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

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"Beauty pleases the eyes only; sweetness of disposition charms the soul."

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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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"The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise."

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"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."

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"Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."

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"I have chosen to be happy because it's good for my health."

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"The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood."

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"I may not agree with what you say, but to your death I will defend your right to say it."

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"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

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"Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men."

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"Darkness is at its deepest, just before sunrise."

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"Tears are the silent language of grief."

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"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."

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"Writing is the painting of the voice."

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"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation."

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"Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget tossing in the lifeboats."

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""Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget tossing in the lifeboats.""

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"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."

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"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."

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"The most important decision you will ever make is to be in a good mood"

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"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."

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"With great power comes great responsibility."

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"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."

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"Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."

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"I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health."

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""I drink forty coffees a day to stay wide awake and think, think, think about how I can fight tyrants and imbeciles. It will certainly be a poison, but a very slow poison: I have already been drinking it for seventy years and, until now, I have never experienced its sad effects on my health.""

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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

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"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."

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"Common sense is not so common."

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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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"Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal."

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"Let us read, and let us dance; These two amusements will never hurt the world."

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"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

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"Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal."

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"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time."

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"The perfect is the enemy of the good."

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"This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it."

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"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

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"Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel."

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"History is the lie commonly agreed upon."

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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 argue. Nature acts."

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"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."

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"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."

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"“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”"

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