Voltaire

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they’re gone.

What you can’t pay back you pay forward.

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

In this magical hour, as the black ink sky fades to forget-me-not grey and the Cyprus trees emerge from the shadows, I tune in to my heart. In clarity, I choose to step into freedom to bring lightness of being and to be love.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

The Country is both the Philosopher’s Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.