I was up all night reading quotes by this guy there's over 700 I'm only on 70 😅 but here are a few..

Can you guess who it is? 🙃

🍑 The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

🍑 He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

🍑 ‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

🍑 So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

🍑 The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

🍑 If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

🍑 The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

🍑 Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

🍑 Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

🍑 The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

🍑 God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

🍑 Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

🍑 One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

🍑 Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

🍑 Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

🍑 Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

🍑 Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

🍑 Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

🍑 I hate women because they always know where things are. (😂)

🍑 Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

🍑 Music is the pathway to the heart.

🍑 Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

🍑 Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

🍑 This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

🍑 The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

🍑 He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

🍑 Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

🍑 I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

🍑 Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

🍑 Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

🍑 Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

🍑 It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

🍑 Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

...C'est Volatire 😌

~💘