The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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About Voltaire

Portrait of Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (French: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁi aʁwɛ]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, US also ; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially of the Catholic Church) and...

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their
wills.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

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The happier you are, the less you need.

—Francesca Lia Block in Ecstasia

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The important thing is that when you come to understand something, you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

—Sister Helen Prejean

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I needed to be somewhere different. Maybe I needed to be someone different, too.

—Heather Davis in The Clearing

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At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

—Marshall B. Rosenberg

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I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

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