The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
VOLTAIREShe blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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 longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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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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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Common sense is not so common.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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