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.
VoltaireTags: life
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion
VoltaireTags: optimism status-quo illusion
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them
VoltaireQuesta ridicola debolezza è forse una delle nostre inclinazioni più funeste: c'è qualcosa di più sciocco del voler portare continuamente un fardello che vorremmo sempre gettare a terra? Di avere orrore della propria esistenza e di tenersi aggrappati alla propria esistenza? Insomma di accarezzare il serpente che ci divora, finché ci abbia mangiato il cuore?
VoltaireTags: candido
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
VoltaireTags: marriage
To a toad, what is beauty? A female with pop eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and a spotted back,
VoltaireThe interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.
VoltaireTags: burden-of-proof proof existance
People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.
VoltaireI have no morals, yet I am a very moral person
VoltaireLife is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VoltaireTags: harm misfortune dwell
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