More From Voltaire
- "History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."
- "The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
- "The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work."
More In Good
- "Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."― Hannah Arendt
- "Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness."― Bertrand Russell
- "To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."― Plato