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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire
Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.
Voltaire
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.
Voltaire
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.
Voltaire
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire
My life is a struggle.
Voltaire
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire
Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.
Vladimir Putin
One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.
Vladimir Putin