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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient  (Voltaire Quotes) 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 Quotes) How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted  (Voltaire Quotes) In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another  (Voltaire Quotes) It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it  (Voltaire Quotes) It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape  (Voltaire Quotes) 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  (Voltaire Quotes) Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same  (Voltaire Quotes) Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts  (Voltaire Quotes) Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument  (Voltaire Quotes) Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men  (Voltaire Quotes) The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in  (Voltaire Quotes) The art of government is to make two thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third  (Voltaire Quotes) The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all  (Voltaire Quotes) The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year  (Voltaire Quotes) The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death  (Voltaire Quotes) The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason  (Voltaire Quotes) The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence  (Voltaire Quotes) Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors  (Voltaire Quotes) We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature  (Voltaire Quotes) We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest  (Voltaire Quotes) What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature  (Voltaire Quotes) What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking  (Voltaire Quotes) All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God  (Voltaire Quotes) God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well  (Voltaire Quotes) God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best  (Voltaire Quotes) One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose  (Voltaire Quotes) Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die  (Voltaire Quotes) We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads  (Voltaire Quotes) Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel  (Voltaire Quotes)
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