Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.


Voltaire

896

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.


Voltaire

896

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.


Voltaire

896

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.


Voltaire

896

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.


Voltaire

896

I hate women because they always know where things are.


Voltaire

896

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.


Voltaire

896

To hold a pen is to be at war.


Voltaire

896

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.


Voltaire

896

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.


Voltaire

896

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.


Voltaire

896

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.


Voltaire

896

Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.


Voltaire

896

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.


Voltaire

896

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.


Voltaire

896

Tears are the silent language of grief.


Voltaire

896

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.


Voltaire

896

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.


Voltaire

896

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.


Voltaire

896

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.


Voltaire

896

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