I really like quotes from people that makes us have the courage to see things in different ways, here are a few of them:

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir

That with each successive defeat there is an approach towards the final mutation, and that man only is in that he searches to be, plans to be, thumbing through words and modes of behavior and joy sprinkled with blood and other rhetorical pieces like this one.
Julio Cortazar

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Simone de Beauvoir

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

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Voltaire

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.
Voltaire

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Voltaire

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Madame de Stael

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Madame de Stael

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoir

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