Voltaire
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Voltaire
age
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
-Voltaire
age
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
-Voltaire
alone
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
alone
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
-Voltaire
alone
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
-Voltaire
architecture
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
-Voltaire
art
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.
-Voltaire
art
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
-Voltaire
art
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
-Voltaire
beauty
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
-Voltaire
best
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
-Voltaire
best
The best is the enemy of the good.
-Voltaire
best
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
-Voltaire
best
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
-Voltaire
best
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
-Voltaire
birthday
Business is the salt of life.
-Voltaire
business
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
-Voltaire
death
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
-Voltaire
death
It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
-Voltaire
death
Nature has always had more force than education.
-Voltaire
education
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
experience
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
faith
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
-Voltaire
famous
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
-Voltaire
fear
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
-Voltaire
fear
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
-Voltaire
friendship
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
-Voltaire
funny
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-Voltaire
future
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
-Voltaire
gardening
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
-Voltaire
god
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
-Voltaire
god
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-Voltaire
god
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
-Voltaire
god
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
-Voltaire
god
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
-Voltaire
god
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