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Poet Lawyer Inspirational Quotes (5738)

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Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
Andrew Vachss
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Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.
Andrew Vachss
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
Michel de Montaigne
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
Michel de Montaigne
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Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.
Marguerite Duras
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
Michel de Montaigne
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Life is simply experience for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.
Scott Turow
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Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
Paulo Coelho
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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Voltaire
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire
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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire
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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Voltaire
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue they support the laws before destroying them.
Voltaire
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Voltaire
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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
Voltaire
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The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
Voltaire
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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!
Voltaire
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