Voltaire Quotes And Sayings

Society Therefore Is An Ancient As The World.

All Styles Are Good Except The Tiresome Kind.

My Life Is A Struggle.

The Multitude Of Books Is Making Us Ignorant.

Let Us Work Without Theorizing, Tis The Only Way To Make Life Endurable.

The Best Is The Enemy Of The Good.

Such Is The Feebleness Of Humanity, Such Is Its Perversity, That Doubtless It Is Better For It To Be Subject To All Possible Superstitions, As Long As They Are Not Murderous, Than To Live Without Religion.

Is There Anyone So Wise As To Learn By The Experience Of Others?

Better Is The Enemy Of Good.

Very Often, Say What You Will, A Knave Is Only A Fool.

Illusion Is The First Of All Pleasures.

It Is Not Sufficient To See And To Know The Beauty Of A Work. We Must Feel And Be Affected By It.

The Ear Is The Avenue To The Heart.

All Men Are Born With A Nose And Five Fingers, But No One Is Born With A Knowledge Of God.

A Witty Saying Proves Nothing.

When It Is A Question Of Money, Everybody Is Of The Same Religion.

When He To Whom One Speaks Does Not Understand, And He Who Speaks Himself Does Not Understand, That Is Metaphysics.

The Art Of Medicine Consists In Amusing The Patient While Nature Cures The Disease.

It Is Forbidden To Kill; Therefore All Murderers Are Punished Unless They Kill In Large Numbers And To The Sound Of Trumpets.

If God Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary To Invent Him.

The Secret Of Being A Bore... Is To Tell Everything.

Appreciation Is A Wonderful Thing: It Makes What Is Excellent In Others Belong To Us As Well.

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.

Originality Is Nothing But Judicious Imitation. The Most Original Writers Borrowed One From Another.

If God Created Us In His Own Image, We Have More Than Reciprocated.

It Is Said That The Present Is Pregnant With The Future.

Perfection Is Attained By Slow Degrees; It Requires The Hand Of Time.

By Appreciation, We Make Excellence In Others Our Own Property.

Everything's Fine Today, That Is Our Illusion.

The Ancient Romans Built Their Greatest Masterpieces Of Architecture, Their Amphitheaters, For Wild Beasts To Fight In.

Paradise Was Made For Tender Hearts; Hell, For Loveless Hearts.

All The Reasonings Of Men Are Not Worth One Sentiment Of Women.

One Great Use Of Words Is To Hide Our Thoughts.

Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities.

Clever Tyrants Are Never Punished.

Every One Goes Astray, But The Least Imprudent Are They Who Repent The Soonest.

Tears Are The Silent Language Of Grief.

It Is Vain For The Coward To Flee; Death Follows Close Behind; It Is Only By Defying It That The Brave Escape.

Injustice In The End Produces Independence.

The Flowery Style Is Not Unsuitable To Public Speeches Or Addresses, Which Amount Only To Compliment. The Lighter Beauties Are In Their Place When There Is Nothing More Solid To Say; But The Flowery Style Ought To Be Banished From A Pleading, A Sermon, Or A Didactic Work.

The Superfluous, A Very Necessary Thing.

There Are Truths Which Are Not For All Men, Nor For All Times.

It Is Dangerous To Be Right In Matters On Which The Established Authorities Are Wrong.

Faith Consists In Believing When It Is Beyond The Power Of Reason To Believe.

Man Is Free At The Moment He Wishes To Be.

It Is Not Love That Should Be Depicted As Blind, But Self-love.

I Have Lived Eighty Years Of Life And Know Nothing For It, But To Be Resigned And Tell Myself That Flies Are Born To Be Eaten By Spiders And Man To Be Devoured By Sorrow.

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.

Of All Religions, The Christian Should Of Course Inspire The Most Tolerance, But Until Now Christians Have Been The Most Intolerant Of All Men.

We Must Cultivate Our Own Garden. When Man Was Put In The Garden Of Eden He Was Put There So That He Should Work, Which Proves That Man Was Not Born To Rest.