Voltaire

Tears are the silent language of grief.

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

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Common sense is not so common.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.