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#1

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

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“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
― Voltaire

tags: philosophy-of-life

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#3

“Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.”
― Voltaire

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“Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace. ”
― Voltaire

tags: reading

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#5

“She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.”
― Candide, Candide

tags: crush, love

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#6

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

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#7

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

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#8

“Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.”
― Voltaire

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#9

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy

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#10

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: love, respect

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#11

“To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: love

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#12

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
― William James

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#13

“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth

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#14

“Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”
― Alexandre Dumas

tags: love, suspicion

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#15

“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: compassion

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#16

“All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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#17

“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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#18

“If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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#19

“True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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#20

“An open heart is an open mind.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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#21

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

tags: paranoia, proverbs, wit

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#22

“The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.”
― John Keats

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#23

“Touch has a memory.”
― John Keats

tags: memory, touch

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#24

“Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.”
― Archimedes, The Works of Archimedes

tags: change, determination, discovery, invention, opportunity

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#25

“In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: brilliance, determination, faith, first-impression, fool, foolish, genius, geniuses, glance, illusion, mistaken, mistaken-identity, misunderstood, originality, perseverance, risk, taking-risks, wheels

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#26

“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

tags: death, gallows-humor, humor, laughing

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#27

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

tags: death, wisdom, youth

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#28

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent

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#29

“So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: misattributed-erwin-schrödinger

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#30

“We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.”
― Schopenhauer, Arthur, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer

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