Voltaire

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me-I always feel that they have not said enough.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.