Voltaire

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Think with your whole body.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Coercion is evil precisely because it…eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

See, I think you live on earth a certain number of times until you finish what it is that you were meant to do here. And then you go on. I don’t think I’ll be back here. I think I’m done.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

A bargain is something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person