If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. - (Voltaire - Adventure)

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. - (Voltaire - Age and Aging)

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. - (Voltaire - Ancestry)

It is not known precisely where angels dwell -- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. - (Voltaire - Angels)

Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. - (Voltaire - Animals)

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. - (Voltaire - Appreciation)

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong - (Voltaire - Argument)

Men argue, nature acts. - (Voltaire - Argument)

Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels. - (Voltaire - Argument)

In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others. - (Voltaire - Army and Navy)

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. - (Voltaire - Books - Reading)

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. - (Voltaire - Books - Reading)

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you. - (Voltaire - Bores and Boredom)

Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one. - (Voltaire - Certainty)

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it. - (Voltaire - Character)