| "I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want." Voltaire Popular Quotes |
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| A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live Voltaire Quotations |
| A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right Voltaire |
| A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble Voltaire Adages |
| A witty saying proves nothing. Voltaire |
| A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age Voltaire Quotations |
| All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. Voltaire Quotations |
| All kinds are good except the kind that bores you. Voltaire Quotes |
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| All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God Voltaire |
| All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws Voltaire Quotes |
| All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference. Voltaire |
| All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. Voltaire Remarks |
| All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon. Voltaire |
| Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over the Voltaire |
| Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost Voltaire Adages |
| Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. Voltaire |
| Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. Voltaire Sayings |
| Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. Voltaire Quotes |
| Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well Voltaire |
| As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities Voltaire |
| As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. Voltaire |
| As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities. Voltaire Remarks |
| Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. Voltaire |
| Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world Voltaire Remarks |
| Clever tyrants are never punished. Voltaire |
| Common sense is not so common. Voltaire Quotes |
| Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. Voltaire |
| Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of which they know nothing. Voltaire Quotes |
| Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. Voltaire |
| Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd Voltaire |
| Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire Adages |
| Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous. Voltaire Sayings |
| Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. Voltaire |
| Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. Voltaire Sayings |
| Everything persecutes me in this world, even things that do not exist Voltaire |
| Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness Voltaire |
| Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness. Voltaire Sayings |
| Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. Voltaire |
| For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm Voltaire Quotes |
| Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is Voltaire |
| Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. Voltaire |
| Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. Voltaire Quotations |
| God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Voltaire Remarks |
| God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire Sayings |
| God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire Quotes |
| Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. Voltaire Remarks |
| He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. Voltaire Quotations |
| He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked Voltaire Adages |
| He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery. Voltaire |
| He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool Voltaire |
| Historians are gossips who tease the dead. Voltaire |
| History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times. Voltaire |
| History is fables agreed upon. Voltaire |
| History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. Voltaire |
| History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead Voltaire |
| History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others. Voltaire |
| How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. Voltaire Quotes |
| I advice you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying you annuities. Voltaire Quotes |
| I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. Voltaire |
| I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. Voltaire Sayings |
| I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. Voltaire |
| 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. Voltaire |
| I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. Voltaire |
| I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition Voltaire |
| I disapprove of what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire Sayings |
| I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it Voltaire |
| I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire Sayings |
| I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it Voltaire |
| I hate women because they always know where things are. Voltaire Adages |
| I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. Voltaire Quotes |
| I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. Voltaire |
| I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little. Voltaire Remarks |
| I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil Voltaire Quotations |
| I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race. Voltaire Sayings |
| I know of nothing more laughable than a Doctor Who does not die of old age. Voltaire |
| I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal. Voltaire |
| If Christians want us to believe in a Redeemer, let them act redeemed Voltaire |
| If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. Voltaire Quotes |
| If God did not exist it would be necessary for us to invent Him. Voltaire |
| If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist. Voltaire |
| If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Voltaire Remarks |
| If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero Voltaire Quotes |
| If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. Voltaire Remarks |
| If you wish to converse with me, define your terms Voltaire Remarks |
| Illusion is the first of all pleasures. Voltaire Quotations |
| 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 Voltaire |
| In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it. Voltaire |
| In this country it is considered wise to kill an admiral from time to time in order to encourage The Others Voltaire |
| Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. Voltaire Adages |
| Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. Voltaire |
| Injustice in the end produces independence. Voltaire |
| It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color Voltaire |
| It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge Voltaire Remarks |
| It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music. Voltaire |
| It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire Remarks |
| It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong Voltaire |
| It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. Voltaire |
| It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire |
| It is easier to write on money than to obtain it, and those who gain it, jest much at those who only know how to write about it Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books Voltaire Quotes |
| It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets Voltaire |
| It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire Remarks |
| It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. Voltaire Quotations |
| It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. Voltaire |
| It is not enough to conquer; one must also know how to seduce Voltaire Quotations |
| 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. Voltaire |
| It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap. Voltaire |
| It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. Voltaire |
| It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude Voltaire |
| Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers Voltaire |
| Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire Quotes |
| Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers. Voltaire |
| Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. Voltaire Quotes |
| Liberty guest amiable, Plants both elbows on the table Voltaire |
| Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting. Voltaire Sayings |
| Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. Voltaire Quotations |
| Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire |
| Love truth, and pardon error. Voltaire Quotations |
| Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all, and others to persecute those who reason Voltaire |
| Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly Voltaire Quotations |
| Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. Voltaire |
| May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies. Voltaire Remarks |
| Men appear to prefer to ruin one another's fortunes, and to cut each other's throats over a few miserable villages, than to extend the means of human happiness Voltaire |
| Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference Voltaire Remarks |
| Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. Voltaire |
| Men argue, nature acts Voltaire |
| Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. Voltaire |
| Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts Voltaire Remarks |
| Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create. Voltaire |
| My prayer to God is a very short one: ''O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous!'' God has granted it. Voltaire Quotes |
| Nature has always had more power than education Voltaire |
| Neither holy, nor Roman, nor Empire. Voltaire Sayings |
| No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. Voltaire |
| No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Voltaire Quotations |
| Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense Voltaire Sayings |
| Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. Voltaire |
| Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. Voltaire |
| 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 Voltaire |
| Once the people begin to reason, all is lost Voltaire |
| One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| One great use of words is to hide our thoughts Voltaire Remarks |
| One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly. Voltaire Sayings |
| Only your friends steal your books Voltaire |
| Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes Voltaire Adages |
| Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Voltaire |
| 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 Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| 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. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time Voltaire Quotes |
| Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth Voltaire |
| Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures. Voltaire Adages |
| Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. Voltaire |
| Prejudice is opinion without judgement. Voltaire Adages |
| Prejudice is the reason of fools Voltaire |
| Prejudices are what fools use for reason. Voltaire |
| Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life Voltaire |
| Repose is a good thing, but boredom is its brother Voltaire |
| Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| Self-love is the instrument of our preservation. Voltaire |
| Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated Voltaire |
| 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. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother. Voltaire |
| Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them Voltaire Adages |
| Tears are the silent language of grief. Voltaire Sayings |
| The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. Voltaire Quotations |
| The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Voltaire |
| The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Voltaire Remarks |
| The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of things and of inev Voltaire |
| The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Voltaire Adages |
| The best is the enemy of the good. Voltaire Adages |
| The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out Voltaire Quotations |
| The best way to become boring is to say everything. Voltaire |
| The ear is the avenue to the heart. Voltaire |
| The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. Voltaire |
| The first priest was the first rogue who met the first fool Voltaire Sayings |
| The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. Voltaire Sayings |
| The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks Voltaire |
| The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. Voltaire Quotations |
| The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Voltaire |
| The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. Voltaire |
| 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. Voltaire Remarks |
| The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Voltaire |
| The multitude of books is making us ignorant. Voltaire |
| The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. Voltaire |
| The person ready to believe unlikely and unproved things is readily made a slave of by the crafty Voltaire Quotations |
| The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. Voltaire Quotes |
| The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. Voltaire Quotations |
| The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. Voltaire |
| The secret of being a bore is to tell everything Voltaire Adages |
| The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. Voltaire Remarks |
| The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion. Voltaire |
| The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. Voltaire Sayings |
| The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force Voltaire Quotations |
| The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. Voltaire |
| The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost their power of reasoning Voltaire Quotations |
| The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. Voltaire |
| 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. Voltaire Quotations |
| There are men who can think no deeper than a fact Voltaire Remarks |
| There are no sects in geometry Voltaire |
| There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts Voltaire Quotes |
| There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all occasions Voltaire |
| There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable. Voltaire |
| There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind Voltaire |
| Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. Voltaire |
| Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too Voltaire Adages |
| Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. Voltaire Remarks |
| This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire |
| To a toad, what is beauty? A female with two pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly and spotted back Voltaire Quotes |
| To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd Voltaire |
| To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly Voltaire Sayings |
| To hold a pen is to be at war. Voltaire Quotes |
| To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities - that is not to be taken seriously in politics. Voltaire |
| To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters Voltaire Adages |
| To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. Voltaire |
| To them it seemed that the gifts of an enemy were to be dreaded. Voltaire Quotations |
| True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others Voltaire Quotes |
| Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe. Voltaire Quotations |
| Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them Voltaire |
| Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. Voltaire Sayings |
| We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature. Voltaire Remarks |
| We cannot wish for that we know not. Voltaire |
| We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. Voltaire Adages |
| We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard. Voltaire Remarks |
| We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. Voltaire |
| We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the Motto of all quarrels Voltaire Remarks |
| What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon. Voltaire |
| What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them Voltaire |
| 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. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| 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. Voltaire Adages |
| What most persons consider as virtue,
after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. Voltaire Sayings |
| What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy Voltaire Quotations |
| What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. Voltaire |
| What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. Voltaire Quotes |
| When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. Voltaire Popular Quotes |
| When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire Adages |
| When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire |
| When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire Sayings |
| When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. Voltaire |
| Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. Voltaire Remarks |
| Work is often the father of pleasure. Voltaire Sayings |
| Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. Voltaire |
| Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need Voltaire |
| You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it Voltaire Quotations |
| You must have the devil in you to succeed in any of the arts Voltaire Adages |
| You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason Voltaire |
| Your destiny is that of a man, and your vows those of a god. Voltaire |
