Voltaire

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Dare to think for yourself.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

A crank is someone with a new idea – until it catches on.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ’em to match the men.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Standing beneath this immense, bejeweled, star-spangled dome, breathing in its life, boundaries fall away, possibilities open up and my wings unfold. And I thought that you were the one who was the angel.

Big doors swing on little hinges.