3 December 2020 Voltaire What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
3 December 2020 Voltaire We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.
3 December 2020 Voltaire The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
3 December 2020 Voltaire 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.
3 December 2020 Voltaire God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
3 December 2020 Voltaire What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
3 December 2020 Voltaire The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
3 December 2020 Voltaire It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
3 December 2020 Voltaire 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.
3 December 2020 Voltaire How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
