You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.- Voltaire
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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
We cannot wish for that we know not.
