Voltaire Quotes
Injustice in the end produces independence. Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? 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. It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce. It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow. It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
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