Voltaire Quotes, Stupid Quotes, Heart Quotes

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

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

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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