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“Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.”
― voltaire

“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
― Voltaire

“To hold a pen is to be at war.”
― Voltaire

“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion”
― Voltaire

“The best is the enemy of good.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
― Voltaire

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”
― Voltaire

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
― Voltaire

“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
― Voltaire

“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
― Voltaire

“Minds differ still more than faces.”
― Voltaire

“I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.”
― Voltaire

“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
― Voltaire

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
― Phyllis Diller

“They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”
― Golda Meir

“Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.

[Blog post, March 12, 2012]”
― Jim C. Hines

“I live in a world of fantasy, so keep your reality away from me. I see what I want, I want what I see and that is all okay with me.”
― Itzah C. Kret

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
― Carl Sagan

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”
― Mark Twain

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last