The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
VOLTAIREThe happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
VOLTAIREMay God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIREThe only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
VOLTAIREOur 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.
VOLTAIRETo hold a pen is to be at war.
VOLTAIREPerfect is the enemy of good.
VOLTAIREEvery man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
VOLTAIREBehind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
VOLTAIRELiberty of thought is the life of the soul.
VOLTAIREIt is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VOLTAIREIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIREIt is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
VOLTAIREInjustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIREThe 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.
VOLTAIREIf 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.
VOLTAIREI have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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