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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

  Voltaire

  Cutting, Land, Two

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

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• Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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  Spiritual, Travel, Attitude

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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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  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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• God created woman to tame man.

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  Men

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• I hate women because they always know where things are.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Cute

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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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• Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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  Sleep, Exercise, Dark

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• Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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  Optimistic, Optimism, Madness

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• The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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  Funny Friendship, Real, Self

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• History is the study of the world's crime

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  World, Study, Crime

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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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• 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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• 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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• Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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  Prejudice, Crowds, Vulgar

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

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  Pleasure, Enjoy, Know How

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• I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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  Men, Years, Sorrow

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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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• 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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• There can be no happiness without good health

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  Good Health

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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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• One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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  Interesting, Should, Aim

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• To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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  Truth, Receipts, Persecuted

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