The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
By : Voltaire
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
By : Voltaire
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
By : Voltaire
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
By : Voltaire
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
By : Voltaire
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
By : Voltaire
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
By : Voltaire
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
By : Voltaire
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
By : Voltaire