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• The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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  Darkness, Sunrise, Quiet

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• All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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  Friendship, Second Chance, Law

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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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  Courage, Truth, May

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• I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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  Philosophy, Cutting, Religion

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.128, Penguin

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• There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

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  Animal, Two, People

  Voltaire's letter, 1739.

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• The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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  Life, Thinking, Consolation

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• The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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  Wise, Positive Atheism, Things Happen

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

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  Truth, Fruit, Should

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• It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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  Garden

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• I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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  Heart, Hug, Weakness

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• The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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  Honesty, Fear, Integrity

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

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• One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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  Speak

  "Commentaires sur Corneille (1764)". "Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire", 1827.

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• The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

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  Men, Order, Goal

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.166, Voltaire

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• Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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  Journey, Hiking, Thought Provoking

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.109, Penguin

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• It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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  Motivational, Giving, Answers

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• So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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  Country, Men, Greatness

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

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  Dream, Goal, Wish

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• Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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  Bird, Flying, High Places

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• The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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  Philosophy, Men, Desire

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.118

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

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  Funny, Witty, Philosophy

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• Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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  Wise, Wisdom, Learning

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• Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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  Christian, Atheist, Men

  "L'examen important de Milord Bolingbroke écrit sur la fin de 1736". Book by Voltaire. Conclusion, 1736.

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• Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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  Justice, Prejudice, Opinion

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.120, Penguin

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• It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Mind

  'The Leningrad Notebooks' (c.1735-c.1750) in T. Besterman (ed.) 'Notebooks' (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455

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