Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
VOLTAIREOpinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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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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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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