Voltaire Quotes - Page 2
+1Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
- Voltaire
+1Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
- Voltaire
+1History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
- Voltaire
+1We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
- Voltaire
+1The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- Voltaire
+1We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
- Voltaire
+1He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
- Voltaire
+1Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
- Voltaire
+1The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it.
- Voltaire
+1Tears are the silent language of grief.
- Voltaire
+1Clever tyrants are never punished.
- Voltaire
+1It 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
+1I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
- Voltaire
0A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.
- Voltaire
0Work is often the father of pleasure.
- Voltaire
-1I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which.
- Voltaire
-1If God did not exist it would be necessary for us to invent Him.
- Voltaire
