Zitat des Tages von Voltaire:
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Society therefore is as ancient as the world.
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Injustice in the end produces independence.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.