Voltaire

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Every great movement must experience three stages ridicule, discussion, adoption.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Our best history is still poetry.

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.