The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it. Voltaire View this quote
To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave. Voltaire
Voltaire
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters. Voltaire
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. Voltaire
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext. Voltaire
Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties. Voltaire
Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared. Voltaire
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. Voltaire
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors. Voltaire
Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best. Voltaire
Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned. Voltaire
French writer, historian, and philosopher
November 21st, 1694 - May 30th, 1778