Voltaire

My life is a struggle.

Dare to think for yourself.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

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

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet, drink, and botanical medicines.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

You don’t create things, you discover things.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself into one.

In all debates let truth be thy aim; not victory or an unjust interest; and endeavor to gain rather than to expose thy antagonist.