The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
VOLTAIREAppreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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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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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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