...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. 
With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
-Voltaire

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is 
everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
-Voltaire

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in 
others belong to us as well.
-Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
-Voltaire

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
-Voltaire

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, 
make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
-Voltaire

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

Love truth, and pardon error.
-Voltaire

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
-Voltaire

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
-Voltaire

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature 
cures the disease.
-Voltaire

The way to become boring is to say everything.
-Voltaire

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being 
silent to be impenetrable.
-Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit 
atrocities.
-Voltaire

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders 
man happy.
-Voltaire

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
-Voltaire

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving 
away what no longer belongs to him.
-Voltaire

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Generals

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and 
they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be 
extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby 
you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Emptiness and Fullness

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are 
competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear 
to be ineffective.

Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Strategic Assessments

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated 
warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Strategic Assessments