Voltaire Quotes.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
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.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
