Voltaire

(223 votes)   The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

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(460 votes)   I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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(295 votes)   Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.

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1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(294 votes)   Work is often the father of pleasure.

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1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(288 votes)   If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

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1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(187 votes)   God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(164 votes)   Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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(160 votes)   Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(160 votes)   It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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(159 votes)   Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

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(158 votes)   Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.

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(136 votes)   The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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(123 votes)   The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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(115 votes)   Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

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(114 votes)   The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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