Voltaire Quotes
+26What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire
+7God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
+6Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
- Voltaire
+5When it’s a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
- Voltaire
+5Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
- Voltaire
+5It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
+5I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire
+5Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.
- Voltaire
+3Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
- Voltaire
+3It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire
+3A witty saying proves nothing.
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+3The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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+3Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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+3Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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+3It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
- Voltaire
+3Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
- Voltaire
+3It is with books as it is with men a very small number play a great part; the rest are lost in the multitude.
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+3The more you know, the less sure you are.
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+3We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
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+3Common sense is not so common.
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+3History is little else than a long succession of useless cruelties.
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+3History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
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+3The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Voltaire
+3One owes respect to the Living. To the Dead, one owes only Truth.
- Voltaire
+3Let us read and let us dance two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
- Voltaire
+3Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
- Voltaire
+3Our 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.
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+3All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
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+3The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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+3As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
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+3It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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+2Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
- Voltaire
+2He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend – provided, of course, that he really is dead.
- Voltaire
+2To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
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+1All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
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+1Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
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+1Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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+1Luck is a word devoid of sense. Nothing can exist without a cause.
- Voltaire
+1There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times.
- Voltaire
+1Prejudice is opinion without judgment.
- Voltaire
