Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
VOLTAIRESensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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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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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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