Voltaire

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Get a black suit and just freeload, problem it’s too God damned late now even to be any of the things I never wanted to be.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

Justice delayed is justice denied.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Every old poem is sacred.

Whatever you have spend less.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption –pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.