Voltaire

Dare to think for yourself.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Choose people who lift you up.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Better is the enemy of good.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.