Voltaire Quotes
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. Prejudices are what fools use for reason. Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. Society therefore is an ancient as the world. Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. Tears are the silent language of grief. The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. The best is the enemy of the good. The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out. The ear is the avenue to the heart. The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
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