3 December 2020 Voltaire The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
3 December 2020 Voltaire It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Voltaire In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
3 December 2020 Voltaire He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
3 December 2020 Voltaire The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
3 December 2020 Voltaire One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
3 December 2020 Voltaire What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
3 December 2020 Voltaire The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
