Voltaire
View AuthorLet's work without reasoning, it's the only way to make life bearable.
Voltaire
View AuthorDemocracy seems only suitable for a very small country.
Voltaire
View AuthorChance is neither, nor can be more than an unknown cause of an unknown effect.
Voltaire
View AuthorIn the disdain of ambition, one finds one of the essential principles of happiness on earth.
Voltaire
View AuthorIt must be known that there is no country on earth where love has not turned lovers into poets.
Voltaire
View AuthorThe jealousy when furious, produces more crimes than interest and ambition.
Voltaire
View AuthorA false science makes atheists; a true science postulates man before divinity.
Voltaire
View AuthorIf the poor start to reason, all is lost.
Voltaire
View AuthorThe newspapers are the archives of trifles.
Voltaire
View AuthorThe desire to please is to the spirit what adornment is to beauty.
Voltaire
View AuthorIt is always more important to strive to be interesting than exact; because the spectator forgives everything except boredom.
Voltaire
View AuthorThe modern man is born either to live amidst the convulsions of restlessness, or in the lethargy of boredom.