Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
VOLTAIREMen will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
More Voltaire Quotes
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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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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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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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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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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