Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
What's optimism? said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.
I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my secret heart I too felt a void where my childhood faith had been. But probably this feeling belongs on...
I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health.
You are very harsh.''I have seen the world.
It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
Common sense is not so common.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year," says Zoroaster.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
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