In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
VOLTAIREIf God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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