He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one w... -Voltaire

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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Voltaire Quotes to Explore

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too....
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers....
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind....
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise....
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad....
To hold a pen is to be at war....
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets....
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die....
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts....
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him....

Sad Quotes to Explore

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want....
You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't...
Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad....
It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like ...
I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to ...
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fe...
The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'...
I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy....
If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic...
I don't really do sad, depressing songs....