Quotes by : Voltaire

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know....

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth,....

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of doing good once in a year.

All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's....

I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I gained one.

You are very harsh.''I have seen the world.

Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see....