Quotes from Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.

The secret of being boring is to tell everything.

The superfluous is very necessary.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

Change everything except your loves.

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.