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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably knows what he is talking about. I just wish he hadn't told me.
James Fenton
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The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
Madame de Stael
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Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping with contemporary Christian thought. So far as there is an answer to the conflict between the goodness of God and the bitterness of suffering, this is it
Gerald Priestland
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Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.
Rene Descartes
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I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
Madame de Stael
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
Denis Diderot
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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
James Fenton
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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Voltaire
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire
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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire
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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Voltaire
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue they support the laws before destroying them.
Voltaire
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Voltaire
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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
Voltaire
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The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
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