Voltaire

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Voltaire

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

Voltaire

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Voltaire

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Voltaire

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

Voltaire

Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.

Voltaire

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Voltaire

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

Voltaire

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

Voltaire