It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

More from The Friends of Voltaire

• A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
• I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
• Only a little, it might be. But if every man did the little he could — what a different world!
• There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
• 24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day, coincedence? I think not.
• 640K ought to be enough for anybody.