Voltaire

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Nature has always had more force than education.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

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

When one has tasted it Watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Security will produce danger.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don’t be afraid to fail.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One’s enough.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.