Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIREAppreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Life is thickly 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.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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