Quotes Voltaire

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Emp...

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very m...

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assa...

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great....

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it f...

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but can...

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs....

The multitude of books is making us ignorant....

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times ...

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

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or...

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience....

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything....

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything....

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

The superfluous, a very necessary thing....

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get alon...

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by th...

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that ...

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch...

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all time...

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to d...

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it res...

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you comm...

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by makin...