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- Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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