It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
You're a bitter man, said Candide.That's because I've lived, said Martin.
Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.
The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
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 st...
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.