truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 16 January 2007 7:45 am

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 16 January 2007 7:47 am

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.
Voltaire

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 16 January 2007 7:48 am

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Voltaire

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 16 January 2007 7:49 am

I hate women because they always know where things are.
Voltaire

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 16 January 2007 7:51 am

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 16 January 2007 7:54 am

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 16 January 2007 7:55 am

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire