God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
From Voltaire
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
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