Voltaire Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Morning Quotes

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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

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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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