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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
-- Voltaire
#Life #Peace #Atheist
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“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”
-- Voltaire
#Wisdom #Clever #Men
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“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
-- Voltaire
#Happiness #Cheer Up #Decision
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“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”
-- Voltaire
#Motivational #Inspiration #Challenges
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“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
-- Voltaire
#Inspirational #Motivational #Yoga
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“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
-- Voltaire
#Travel #Way #My Way
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“The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.”
-- Voltaire
#Good Day #Opportunity #Years
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“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
-- Voltaire
#Positive #Forget #Life Is
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“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
-- Voltaire
#Funny #Failure #Humor
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“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”
-- Voltaire
#Birthday #Resurrection #Reincarnation
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“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”
-- Voltaire
#Wisdom #Freedom #Fool
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“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”
-- Voltaire
#Money #Art #Humor
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“Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.”
-- Voltaire
#Life #Soul #Liberty
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“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
-- Voltaire
#Religious #Inspiration #Over You
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“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
-- Voltaire
#Inspirational #Wisdom #Educational
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“Common sense is not so common.”
-- Voltaire
#Life #Wisdom #Witty
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“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.”
-- Voltaire
#Inspirational #Thinking #Privilege
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“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
-- Voltaire
#Inspirational #Life #Spiritual
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“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.”
-- Voltaire
#Inspirational #Life #Freedom
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“The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.”
-- Voltaire
#Inspirational #Husband #Wife
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“The best is the enemy of the good.”
-- Voltaire
#Inspirational #Military #Learning
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“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”
-- Voltaire
#Marriage #Being Single #Humorous
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“I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.”
-- Voltaire
#Chosen
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“Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.”
-- Voltaire
#Gun #Men #Law
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“Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.”
-- Voltaire
#Believe #Divorce #Ancient
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“I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.”
-- Voltaire
#Real #Book #Bored
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“Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them”
-- Voltaire
#People
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“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
-- Voltaire
#Believe #Independent #Taste
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“Men argue. Nature acts.”
-- Voltaire
#Nature #Men #Arguing
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“I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.”
-- Voltaire
#God #Spiritual #Imagine
