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• If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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  Cutting, Land, Two

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

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

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  Funny, Witty, Philosophy

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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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  Two, Stronger, Lions

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• War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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  War, Color, Justice

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• Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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  Reality, Civilization, Risk

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• Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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  Truth, Fruit, Should

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• One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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  Optimistic, Optimism, One Day

  "Voltaire: Poeme sur le desastre de Lisbonne". Book by Voltaire (translated), 1756.

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• True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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  Powerful, Greatness, Understanding

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• Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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  Men, Thinking, Mad

  Letter (1762)

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  It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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  Pregnancy, Future, Goal

  The Portable Voltaire Philosophical Dictionary Concatenation of Events

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• Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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  Inspirational, Running, Positive Thinking

  "The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…".

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• Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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  Boldness And Courage, Dare

  "Can Stephen Abell stay true to Voltaire at the Sun?" by Peter Preston, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2013.

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• Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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  Marriage, Humorous, Being Single

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• To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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  Pleasure, Enjoy, Know How

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• If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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  Groups, Tomorrow, Born

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• The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

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  Believe, Men, Damn You

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• Clever tyrants are never punished.

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  Clever, Tyrants

  "Mérope". Play by Voltaire. Act V, Scene V, 1743.

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• Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "Brutus". Play by Voltaire (Act II, Scene I), 1730.

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• Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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  Twenties, Pockets, Littles

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• He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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  Wise, Thinking, Heaven

  "Le Droit du Seigneur", IV. 1 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 283-285), 1922.

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• God created woman to tame man.

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  Men

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• There can be no happiness without good health

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  Good Health

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• Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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  Common Sense, Interesting, Leader

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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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  Birthday, Loss, Aggravation

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• A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

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  Love, Cute, Beautiful

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