25 quotes from Voltaire

Voltaire (at birth - Francois-Marie Arue) -a major French philosopher of the 18th century. He was a poet and prose writer, tragedian and satirist, publicist and historian, as well as human rights activist. Today we quote the French classic.

• Whoever limits his desires, he is always rich enough.
• Ignorance is the greatest disease of mankind.
• Education develops abilities, but does not create them.
• The further the reason moves forward, the stronger the grinning of the teeth with fanaticism.
• Labor saves a person from the three main evils - boredom, vice and want.
• Dare to think for yourself.
• The man who remains always the same is stupid.
• Freedom is not what you were given. This is something that you can not take away.
• Religion is in good, and not in pathetic theological chatter.
• Love is the strongest of all passions, because it simultaneously possesses the head, heart and body.
• The strength of women in the weaknesses of men.
• Often go far to look for what they have at home.
• How many stupid things people say only because they want to say something.
• People never feel remorse for actions that have become their custom.
• A case is nothing. The case does not exist. We called it an action, the cause of which we do not understand. There is no action without cause, no existence without reason to exist.
• Reading the authors who write well, you get used to speaking well.
• Books for the evil of the day die with topicality.
• To know many languages ​​means to have many keys to one lock.
• For a thinking person there is neither a Frenchman nor an Englishman: who is our enlightener is our compatriot.
• It would be wise, instead of being angry with the world around us, to have the courage to act
• For great things, you need tireless persistence.
• Issue someone else's secret - betrayal, betray your own - stupidity.
• What poverty, what poverty of mind, to say that animals are machines, deprived of understanding and feelings ...
• War turns into wild beasts people born to live brothers.
• Think about how difficult it is to change yourself, and you will understand how insignificant your opportunities are to change others.