If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
VOLTAIREIt is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
More Voltaire Quotes
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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