"Fools admire everything in an author of..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.”

“If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.”

“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”

“In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.”

“If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.”

“A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.”

“One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”

“The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.”

“We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.”