Voltaire

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

A sudden bold and unexpected question does many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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

The listlessness of it all, the profit off depression, the extinction of an entire species, the chlorinated connections- poisoned just to appear clean.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.