“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?”
“Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
“It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.”
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
“The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.”
“The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.”
“Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part, I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
“The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.”
“When it comes to money, everybody is of the same religion.”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”
“Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”
“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
“The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
“Common sense is genius in homespun.”
“The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.”
“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies.”
“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
“Life is too short, time too valuable, to spend it on what is useless.”
“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
“The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.”
“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
“Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.”
“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”
“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.”
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
“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.”
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
“If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new“
“I’ve decided to be happy because it is good for my health.”
“Paradise is where I am.”
“You must have the devil in you to succeed in any of the arts“
“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”
“Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
“Love truth, but pardon error.”
“Injustice, in the end, produces independence.”
“The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
“A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
“The more you read without thinking, the more you think you know a lot but the more you meditate, the more you see that you know very little.”
“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.”
“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.”
“Common sense is not so common.”
“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”
“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”
“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”
“Let us cultivate our garden.”
“We must cultivate our own garden.”
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
“May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.”
“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”
“Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.”
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
“Love is the most powerful of all passions.”
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”
“Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”
“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
