Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
VOLTAIREIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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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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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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