Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds."
Quote link. Other quotes about: law country: "A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sun: "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe people: "As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing: "A witty saying proves nothing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good: "Better is the enemy of good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "Change everything except your loves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time country: "Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide)"
Quote link.: "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd."
Quote link.: "Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need: "Do well and you will have no need for ancestors."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man good: "Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."
Quote link.: "God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work think: "Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination."
Quote link.: "History is fables agreed upon."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human little: "History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death right: "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power god nature teach: "If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world man: "If this world were what it seems it should be, it is clear that it would be impossible for one man to enslave another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find something: "If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god never: "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human men service: "I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die right believe: "I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history nothing: "Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time country: "In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others."
Quote link. Other quotes about: innocent man: "It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right: "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right government: "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Quote link.: "It is not enough to conquer one must learn to seduce."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "It is not known precisely where angels dwell-whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man answer: "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship bad friend friends: "Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."
Quote link.: "Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature: "Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "Love truth but pardon error."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "Love truth, but pardon error."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech: "Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ die sin single: "Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think: "No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time man good making: "Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ men religion: "Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words: "One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people: "Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing: "Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people: "People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth love wisdom: "Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die: "Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right think important: "Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mother wise religion: "Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first need country: "The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think life: "The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books find book: "The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power: "The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error."
Quote link.: "The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth time men: "There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never men government need perfect: "There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government."
Quote link.: "The secret of being boring is to tell everything."
Quote link.: "The superfluous is very necessary."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends fact: "The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends."
Quote link. Other quotes about: war: "To hold a pen is to be at war."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person: "What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money religion: "When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope duty lost death life: "When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty."

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