Voltaire Quotes, Life Quotes, Hands Quotes

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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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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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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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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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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