Voltaire Quotes

“Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.”

“He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.”

“Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.”

“Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”

“Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.”

“We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.”

“History is the study of the world's crime”

“If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.”

“Happiness is a good that nature sells us.”

“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”

“I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.”

“God created women only to tame men.”

“Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”

“Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.”

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”

“The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.”

“Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?”

“Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.”

“There are no sects in geometry.”

“Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.”

“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.”

“If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.”

“Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.”

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

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”