Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
VOLTAIREDon’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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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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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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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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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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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