Voltaire

Clever tyrants are never punished.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Nature has always had more force than education.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

If people misunderstand you, do not worry…it is your voice that they hear, but what goes through their mind is…their own thoughts.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

The worst sin… is… to be indifferent.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.