More Quotes by Voltaire
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
