Quotes By Voltaire

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.

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

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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

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

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.

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

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.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

To hold a pen is to be at war.

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

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.