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.
Voltaire
View AuthorDivorce probably dates back to the same time as marriage. However, I believe that marriage is a few weeks older.
Voltaire
View AuthorMan rushes into error more quickly than rivers flow into the sea.
Voltaire
View AuthorThe nature makes men eloquent in great passions and great interests.
Voltaire
View AuthorThe passion to dominate is the most terrible of all diseases of the human spirit.
Voltaire
View AuthorThe falsehoods not only oppose the truth, but often contradict each other.
Voltaire
View AuthorIt is only possible to affirm in geometry.
Voltaire
View AuthorTo be good only to oneself is to be good for nothing.
Voltaire
View AuthorEvils come flying and go away limping.
Voltaire
View AuthorWomen are like weather vanes: they only stand still when they rust.
Voltaire
View AuthorMetaphysical discussions are like balloons filled with air; when the bladders burst, one observes how the air comes out and nothing is left.