Voltaire

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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age

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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age

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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alone

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.

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alone

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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alone

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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architecture

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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art

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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art

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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art

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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beauty

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