Author Name

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Author : Voltaire

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Author : Voltaire

Common sense is not so common.

Author : Voltaire

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Author : Voltaire

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.

Author : Voltaire

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

Author : Voltaire

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Author : 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.

Author : Voltaire

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Author : Voltaire

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

Author : Voltaire