He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
VOLTAIREIt is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Our 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.
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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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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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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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