Voltaire
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.Collection: Ignorance
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.Collection: Insane
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.Collection: Religious
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.Collection: Important
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.Collection: Should
Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.Collection: Believe
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.Collection: Happiness
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.Collection: Inspirational
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.Collection: Reason
You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.Collection: Life
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.Collection: Health
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.Collection: Philosophical
The more a man knows, the less he talks.Collection: Men
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.Collection: Eye
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.Collection: Happiness
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.Collection: Believe
Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.Collection: Cry
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.Collection: Lying
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.Collection: Funny
Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.Collection: Inspirational
Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.Collection: Relationship
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?Collection: Art
Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?Collection: Believe
We are all guilty of the good we did not doCollection: Guilty
Dare to think for yourself.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Art
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.Collection: Positive
Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say itCollection: Inspirational
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.Collection: Inspirational
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.Collection: Zero
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm usCollection: Motivational
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Collection: Nature
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.Collection: Government
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.Collection: Motivational
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.Collection: Heart
No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.Collection: Valentines Day
You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!Collection: Life
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.Collection: Religion
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.Collection: Philosophical
This is no time to make new enemies.Collection: Life
Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.Collection: Games
The superfluous is very necessary.Collection: Wisdom
To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.Collection: Beauty
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to boreCollection: Firsts
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.Collection: Mean
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.Collection: Grief
Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?Collection: Philosophy
They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.Collection: Religious
Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.Collection: Praise