Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
VOLTAIREIt is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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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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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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