Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
VOLTAIREReading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
More Voltaire Quotes
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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