Voltaire Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Morning Quotes

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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