Quotes By Voltaire

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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.

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

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.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Business is the salt of life.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

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

To hold a pen is to be at war.

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.