A quotation from Voltaire

Life is thick 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.

[La vie est hérissée d’épines, & je ne sçais d’autre remède, que de passer vite à travers ces broussailles. C’est donner de la consistance aux maux, que de trop s’y arrêter.]

Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
(Attributed)

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Attributed to Johann Adam Weishaupt:

1. “Above all, those who have experienced misfortune, not by mere accidents, but through some kind of injustice, that is to say, those that one can most certainly count amongst malcontents: those are the [people] that we must call into the bosom of [the Order] as into their asylum.” ²

2. [By far the most potent inducement to offer is the promise of power.] “The pupils are convinced that the Order will rule the world. Every member therefore becomes a ruler.” ¹

1 Barruel, iii. 35, 2 Robison’s Proofs, p.213.

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