Inspirational Sayings

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a censor morum over each other.

My only strength and safeguard is the love and goodwill of my subjects.

A great many things are often said and believed about me that are not true.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Why do you separate the good from the evil? Is it not I who created both?

The art of governing consists in knowing how to choose.

To be a great general, one must be both brave and prudent.

For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever he wants to believe.

Why should I persecute those who are equally the creatures of God?

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

The greater part of mankind are more governed by interest than by reason.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

The world would be much more happy if men were to govern their passions by reason, than if they were to leave them unbridled.

We live in the best of all possible worlds.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

No man should think of going forward in the expedition, who could not do so with his whole heart, or who had the least misgiving as to its success.

I am not a creature of circumstances; I am a creature of principle.

If a lion knew his own strength, it were hard for any man to rule him.