, VOLTAIRE : Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth. (Archimedes, Greek inventor, physicist, and engineer, c. 287-212 BCEOpportunity: Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth. (Archimedes, Greek inventor, physicist, and engineer, c. 287-212 BCEExtremism: Perfect can be the enemy of good.
, VOLTAIRE : Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
, VOLTAIRE : Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.
, VOLTAIRE : If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
, VOLTAIRE : If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
, VOLTAIRE : God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
, VOLTAIRE : The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
, VOLTAIRE : Perfection is the enemy of good.
, VOLTAIRE : God created sex; priests created marriage.
, VOLTAIRE : It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
, VOLTAIRE : Perfect can be the enemy of good.
, VOLTAIRE : Those who have the ability to make you believe absurdities have the ability to make you commit atrocities.
, VOLTAIRE : Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
, VOLTAIRE : Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
, VOLTAIRE : There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
, VOLTAIRE : Better is the enemy of the good.
, VOLTAIRE : Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
, VOLTAIRE : Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
, VOLTAIRE : It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
, VOLTAIRE : History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
, VOLTAIRE : It is forbidden to kill; therefore, all murderers are puniished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
, VOLTAIRE : If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome, we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
, VOLTAIRE : Think for yourself and let others enjoy the right to do the same.
, VOLTAIRE : Common sense is not so common.
, VOLTAIRE : A good imitation is the most perfect originality.
, VOLTAIRE : Luck is a word devoid of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
, VOLTAIRE : The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
, VOLTAIRE : One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
, VOLTAIRE : Better is the enemy of the good.
, VOLTAIRE : Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
, VOLTAIRE : I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.