To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIREI have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
More Voltaire Quotes
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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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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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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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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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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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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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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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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