Quotes By Voltaire

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

My life is a struggle.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Better is the enemy of good.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.