Quotes Voltaire

Everything is for the best in this best of possible worlds....

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion....

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of r...

Fear follows crime and is its punishment....

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is...

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent....

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselv...

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

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the sid...

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers....

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only...

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

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first....

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; prov...

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

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

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes....

History should be written as philosophy....

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board....

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom....

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to...

I hate women because they always know where things are....

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, b...

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "...

I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O...