"I have seen men incapable of the..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.”

“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.”

“Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.”

“The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.”

“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”

“Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.”

“The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.”

“As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”