Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no ot... -Voltaire

Life 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.

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too....
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers....
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind....
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die....
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts....
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