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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.
Change
Virgil

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Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.
Giving
Virgil

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Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
Fate
Virgil

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Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?
Defeat
Virgil

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
Adversity
Virgil

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
Action
David Viscott

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
Failure
David Viscott

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You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
Affirmation
David Viscott

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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
Fortune
Vincent Voiture

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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
Bores and Boredom
Voltaire

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All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
Equality
Voltaire

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Books - Reading
Voltaire

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Passion
Voltaire

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Evil
Voltaire

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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Appreciation
Voltaire

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
Reform
Voltaire

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Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.
Exaggeration
Voltaire

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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
Metaphysics
Voltaire

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
God
Voltaire

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
God
Voltaire

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
Spirit and Spirituality
Voltaire

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History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
History and Historians
Voltaire

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
History and Historians
Voltaire

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
Nationalities and Nationalism
Voltaire

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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Freedom of Speech
Voltaire

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun