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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 01-12-2022
"Faith consists in believing what reason cannot."
"Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money."
"Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time."
"It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love."
"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. "
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 02-12-2022
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
"No opinion is worth burning your neighbour for."
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
"Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 03-12-2022
"The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity."
"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."
"One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 04-12-2022
"Man is free at the instant he wants to be."
"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."
"It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 05-12-2022
"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."
"God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 06-12-2022
"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."
"Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste."
"It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."
"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 06-12-2022
Top 10 grammar peeves
1 It's "I couldn't care less." "I could care less" means that you actually do care.
2 An apostrophe is never used to form a plural.
3 "Literally" means that it actually happened, not that it figuratively happened.
4 "loose" & "Lose" are two different words.
5 "Your" & "you're" are also two different words.
6 "Their", "there" & "they're" are actually three different words.
7 "Nonplus" does not mean what you think it means.
8 "Affect" is a verb. "Effect" is a noun.
9 "It's" is short for "it is" & "its" means "belonging to it."
10 "Irregardless" is not a word.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 07-12-2022
"What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
"The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe."
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 08-12-2022
"Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it."
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce."
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 09-12-2022
"If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?"
"History never repeats itself. Man always does."
"The infinitely small have a pride infinitely great."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 10-12-2022
"The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person."
"Perfect is the enemy of good."
"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 11-12-2022
"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
"If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones."
"A State can be no better than the citizens of which it is composed. Our labour now is not to mould States but make citizens."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 12-12-2022
"May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies."
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked."
"Our labour preserves us from three great evils — weariness, vice, and want."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 13-12-2022
"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference."
"I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species."
"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law."
"We are rarely proud when we are alone."
Voltaire.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 14-12-2022
"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite."
"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."
"Injustice in the end produces independence."
"To hold a pen is to be at war."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 15-12-2022
"When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics."
"Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men."
"Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbours."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 16-12-2022
"I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow."
"It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music."
"I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests."
"I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 17-12-2022
"What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he’s certain he’ll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?"
"If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace."
"Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively."
"Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 18-12-2022
"The more a man knows, the less he talks."
"Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?"
"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 19-12-2022
"All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women."
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one."
"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. "
"Love truth, but pardon error. "
Voltaire