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Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry
"That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere is almost certain to be false."
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Arthur H. Vandenberg
"It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity."
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Iyanla Vanzant
"Just do what you do and do it well. Stop worrying about what other people are doing, or what they will say about what you are doing. Just do what you do to the best of your ability. Whether people like or agree with what you do is not the issue."
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Virgil
"Fortune favors the brave."
* "Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus." = "But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained."
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Voltaire
* "En général, l’art du gouvernement consiste à prendre le plus d’argent qu’on peut à une grande partie des citoyens, pour le donner à une autre partie." = "In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other."
"La morale est la même chez tous les hommes, donc elle vient de Dieu; le culte est différent, donc il est l’ouvrage des hommes." = "Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men."
"Qu’est-ce que la tolérance? c’est l’apanage de l’humanité. Nous sommes tous pétris de faiblesses et d’erreurs; pardonnons-nous réciproquement nos sottises, c’est la première loi de la nature." = "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."
"Tous les hommes seraient donc nécessairement égaux, s’ils étaient sans besoins. La misère attachée à notre espèce subordonne un homme à un autre homme: ce n’est pas l’inégalité qui est un malheur réel, c’est la dépendance." = "All men would then be necessarily equal, if they were without needs. It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence."
"Virtue supposes liberty, as the carrying of a burden supposes active force. Under coercion there is no virtue, and without virtue there is no religion. Make a slave of me, and I shall be no better for it. Even the sovereign has no right to use coercion to lead men to religion, which by its nature supposes choice and liberty. My thought is no more subject to authority than is sickness or health."
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