In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
VOLTAIREIt is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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