We are rarely proud when we are alone.
VOLTAIREIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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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.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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