Voltaire

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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

Business is the salt of life.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.

The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sun beams and you will always look lovely!

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.

For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.