Voltaire Quotes
The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God, whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is subject to divorce.
Fear could never make a virtue.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies -- it is the first law of nature.
Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
It is not known precisely where angels
dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the
planets. It has not been God's pleasure that
we should be informed of their abode.
Whoever serves his country well
has no need of ancestors.
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
The best way to be boring is to include everything.
It is much better to be silent than to merely increase the number of bad books.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.