The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Common sense is not so common.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Actually – He didn’t say that! What he really said was: “Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too”.
I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
Love truth, but pardon error.
Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
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