Voltaire

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Dare to think for yourself.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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

Injustice in the end produces independence.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?

Poets wish to profit or to please.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

When the desire ain’t on me I don’t need help. When it is on me I don’t want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn’t do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody’s.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found myself, myself as well.

Security will produce danger.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.