Voltaire

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

No man was ever great by imitation.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they’re gone.

We must train hard. It’s not about denying a weakness may exist but about denying its right to persist.

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.