Voltaire

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.