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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.
Voltaire
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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If one cannot imagine Obama saying such a thing — well, he didn't.
Byron York
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I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
Charles Kuralt
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Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
Voltaire
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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
Madame de Stael
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
Denis Diderot
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
Voltaire
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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
Charles Kuralt
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I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer they all affect magnificence and splendor.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.
Voltaire
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Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.
Rene Descartes
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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
Voltaire
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We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
Rene Descartes
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire
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You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
Jessica Savitch
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Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.
Denis Diderot
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You're a bitter man, said Candide. That's because I've lived, said Martin.
Voltaire
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Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
Denis Diderot
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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.
Voltaire
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Mike Pence is simply shoring up the people the Republicans thought they already had. So he is a way for people who thought [Donald] Trump was not really conservative to say, well, okay, here's a conservative guy.
Mark Colvin
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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.
Voltaire
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