Voltaire Quotes

“The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.”

“Change everything except your loves.”

“Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

“The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.”

“This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity”

“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?”

“A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.”

“The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.”

“A good action is preferable to an argument.”

“Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?”

“Everything can be borne except contempt.”

“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”

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

“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.”

“Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.”

“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”

“An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.”

“The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.”

“I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.”

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”

“Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.”

“What can we say with certainty?”

“I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.”

“We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.”

“A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.”