A Quote by Voltaire
To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.
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The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all.
The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them all.
The Truth cannot be told. I vow to explain it.
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.
The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.
It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.
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