| Tears are the silent language of grief. |
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- Voltaire |
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| Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. |
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- Voltaire |
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| What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. |
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- Voltaire |
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| Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. |
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- Voltaire |
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| Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. |
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- Voltaire |
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| The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. |
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- Voltaire |
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| Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. |
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- Voltaire |
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| It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. |
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- Voltaire |
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