More From Voltaire
- "The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
- "It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape."
- "What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking."
More In Men
- "Either war is obsolete, or men are."― R. Buckminster Fuller
- "A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful."― Frederick William Robertson
- "There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."― Ralph Waldo Emerson