Voltaire Quotes About Inspirational
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The best is the enemy of the good.
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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
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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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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
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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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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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Paradise is where I am
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?
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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.
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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.
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A witty saying proves nothing.
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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it
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I hate women because they always know where things are.
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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
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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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