More Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Quotes

1. 'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in th ...
   
2. ...the safest course is to do nothing against one' ...
   
3. A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon t ...
   
4. A long dispute means both parties are wrong. ...
   
5. A multitude of laws in a country is like a great n ...
   
6. A witty saying proves nothing. ...
   
7. All is for the best in the best of all possible wo ...
   
8. All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but ...
   
9. All sects are different, because they come from me ...
   
10. Animals have these advantages over man: they never ...
    
11. Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. ...
    
12. Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is ...
    
13. As long as people believe in absurdities, they wil ...
    
14. As long as there are fools and rascals, there will ...
    
15. Better is the enemy of good. ...
    
16. Canada: A few acres of snow. ...
    
17. Change everything except your loves. ...
    
18. Common sense is not so common. ...
    
19. Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en tem ...
    
20. Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. ...
    
21. Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which t ...
    
22. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty i ...
    
23. England has forty-two religions and only two sauce ...
    
24. Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. ...
    
25. God created sex. Priests created marriage. ...
    
26. God is a circle whose center is everywhere and cir ...
    
27. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afrai ...
    
28. God is always on the side of the big battalions. ...
    
29. Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might t ...
    
30. He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one w ...
    
31. History is fables agreed upon. ...
    
32. History is little else than a picture of human cri ...
    
33. I believe that there never was a creator of a phil ...
    
34. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to ...
    
35. I have lost the half of myself – a soul for which ...
    
36. I have never made but one prayer to God, a very sh ...
    
37. I know of no great men except those who have rende ...
    
38. I may disagree with what you have to say, but I sh ...
    
39. I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a l ...
    
40. Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until ...
    
41. If God created us in his own image, we have more t ...
    
42. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to inv ...
    
43. If this world were what it seems it should be, it ...
    
44. If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least ...
    
45. In general, the art of government consists in taki ...
    
46. In this country England it is well to kill from ti ...
    
47. Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of ...
    
48. It is an infantile superstition of the human spiri ...
    
49. It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to c ...
    
50. It is dangerous to be right when the government is ...
    
51. It is far better to be silent than merely to incre ...
    
52. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers a ...
    
53. It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one mu ...
    
54. It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces ...
    
55. It is not enough to conquer one must learn to sedu ...
    
56. It is not known precisely where angels dwell-wheth ...
    
57. It is one of the superstitions of the human mind t ...
    
58. It is said that God is always on the side of the h ...
    
59. Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his ...
    
60. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a frien ...
    
61. Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense i ...
    
62. Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroider ...
    
63. Love truth, and pardon error. ...
    
64. Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. ...
    
65. Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardl ...
    
66. May God defend me from my friends; I can defend my ...
    
67. Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that make ...
    
68. Men use thought only as authority for their injust ...
    
69. Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one s ...
    
70. No problem can stand the assault of sustained thin ...
    
71. Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and dri ...
    
72. Now, now my good man, this is no time for making e ...
    
73. Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt ...
    
74. Once the people begin to reason, all is lost. ...
    
75. One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. ...
    
76. Only now did I become throughly acquainted with th ...
    
77. Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The ...
    
78. People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 year ...
    
79. Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Tr ...
    
80. Prejudice is opinion without judgement. ...
    
81. Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die. ...
    
82. Regimen is superior to medicine. ...
    
83. Right now I think censorship is necessary the thin ...
    
84. Since the whole affair had become one of religion, ...
    
85. Superstition is to religion what astrology is to a ...
    
86. The art of government consists in taking as much m ...
    
87. The art of medicine consists in amusing the patien ...
    
88. The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who ...
    
89. The great consolation in life is to say what one t ...
    
90. The history of human opinion is scarcely anything ...
    
91. The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman ...
    
92. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We ...
    
93. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greate ...
    
94. The man who leaves money to charity in his will is ...
    
95. The multitude of books is making us ignorant. ...
    
96. The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so ...
    
97. The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either ...
    
98. The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. ...
    
99. The superfluous is very necessary. ...
    
100. The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuo ...
     
101. There are truths which are not for all men, nor fo ...
     
102. There has never been a perfect government, because ...
     
103. There is a wide difference between speaking to dec ...
     
104. There is an astonishing imagination, even in the s ...
     
105. Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the priv ...
     
106. This agglomeration which was called and which stil ...
     
107. This is no time for making new enemies. (when aske ...
     
108. This poem will never reach its destination. ...
     
109. Those who can make you believe absurdities can mak ...
     
110. To be absolutely certain about something, one must ...
     
111. To hold a pen is to be at war. ...
     
112. To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stu ...
     
113. True greatness consists in the use of a powerful u ...
     
114. Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ev ...
     
115. Verses which do not teach men new and moving truth ...
     
116. We are rarely proud when we are alone. ...
     
117. We never live; we are always in the expectation of ...
     
118. What most persons consider as virtue, after the ag ...
     
119. When it is a question of money, everyone is of the ...
     
120. When we have lost everything, including hope, life ...
     
121. When we hear news we should always wait for the sa ...
     
122. Work saves us from three great evils boredom, vice ...
     
123. You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in ...
     
124. [Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that ev ...