"Man can have only a certain number..." - Quote by Voltaire

“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

“Everything can be borne except contempt.”

“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.”

“As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.”

“Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.”

“Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.”

“Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”

“Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.”

“The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.”