The most courageous decision that you can make each day is to be in a good mood.
enlightenment · french-enlightenment
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet · 1694–1778
The Enlightenment's most portable wit. Absurdities, atrocities, and the duty to cultivate one's garden.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.