Voltaire

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Sometimes the place you are used to is not the place you belong.

Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently…

It’s powerful to have strong men but what does that strength mean?

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Being is the great explainer.