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- The best is the enemy of the good. ― Voltaire
- Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ― Voltaire
- Common sense is not so common. ― Voltaire
- Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers. ― Voltaire
- Let us read and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. ― Voltaire
- God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. ― Voltaire
- Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. ― Voltaire
- A witty saying proves nothing. ― Voltaire
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. ― Voltaire
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ― Voltaire
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. ― Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ― Voltaire
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. ― Voltaire
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do. ― Voltaire
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. ― Voltaire
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. ― Voltaire
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. ― Voltaire
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize. ― Voltaire
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes. ― Voltaire
Let us cultivate our garden. ― Voltaire
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it. ― Voltaire
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. ― Voltaire
The more you read without thinking, the more you think you know a lot but the more you meditate, the more you see that you know very little. ― Voltaire
Love truth, but pardon error. ― Voltaire
It is forbidden to kill; therefore, all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ― Voltaire
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. ― Voltaire
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part, I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. ― Voltaire
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. ― Voltaire
Beware of the words “internal security,” for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor. ― Voltaire
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. ― Voltaire
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. ― Voltaire
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ― Voltaire
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies, it is the first law of nature. ― Voltaire
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ― Voltaire
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? ― Voltaire
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom. ― Voltaire
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it. ― Voltaire
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. ― Voltaire
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. ― Voltaire
Tears are the silent language of grief. ― Voltaire
Paradise is where I am. ― Voltaire
A long dispute means that both parties are wrong. ― Voltaire
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money. ― Voltaire
The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. ― Voltaire
When it comes to money, everybody is of the same religion. ― Voltaire
Injustice, in the end, produces independence. ― Voltaire
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. ― Voltaire
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ― Voltaire
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. ― Voltaire
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. ― Voltaire
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. ― Voltaire
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. ― Voltaire
Love is the most powerful of all passions. ― Voltaire
I’ve decided to be happy because it is good for my health. ― Voltaire
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. ― Voltaire
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot. ― Voltaire
The more a man knows, the less he talks. ― Voltaire
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way. ― Voltaire
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. ― Voltaire
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. ― Voltaire
We must cultivate our own garden. ― Voltaire
Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government? ― Voltaire
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool. ― Voltaire
Life is too short, time too valuable, to spend it on what is useless. ― Voltaire
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ― Voltaire
Common sense is both rarer and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence. ― Voltaire
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. ― Voltaire
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. ― Voltaire
The system of equality has always seemed a fool’s pride. ― Voltaire
As long as there are rogues and fools, there will be religious. Ours is unquestionably the most ridiculous and most absurd and bloodiest ever infected the world. ― Voltaire
I do not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death for your right to say. ― Voltaire
The human species is the only one who knows she must die. ― Voltaire
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible to a class of citizens to give to another. ― Voltaire
Men with wise laws, customs have always insane. ― Voltaire
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. ― Voltaire
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot think that this clock exists and has developed a watchmaker. ― Voltaire
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. ― Voltaire
We love life, but none do not let having a good. ― Voltaire
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. ― Voltaire
The work us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. ― Voltaire
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly, that is the first law of nature. ― Voltaire
As is the abuse of despotism of the monarchy, anarchy is the abuse of democracy. ― Voltaire
Politics has its source in evil than in the greatness of the human spirit. ― Voltaire
Fanaticism is superstition that the transport is at a fever, that rage is to anger. ― Voltaire
When the mob gets involved in reasoning, all is lost. ― Voltaire
Prejudices are what fools use for reason. ― Voltaire
If this is the best of possible worlds, what are the others? ― Voltaire
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ― Voltaire
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. ― Voltaire
I stop to die if I had a good word. ― Voltaire
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. ― Voltaire
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to convict an innocent man. ― Voltaire
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. ― Voltaire
It is expedient that the people should be guided, and not that he is educated, he is not worthy of being. ― Voltaire
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. ― Voltaire
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country and is a living lesson. ― Voltaire
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. ― Voltaire
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it. ― Voltaire
To hold a pen is to be at war. ― Voltaire
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. ― Voltaire
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. ― Voltaire
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. ― Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ― Voltaire
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ― Voltaire
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. ― Voltaire
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. ― Voltaire
When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money. ― Voltaire
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ― Voltaire
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ― Voltaire
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. ― Voltaire
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad. ― Voltaire
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors. ― Voltaire
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. ― Voltaire
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. ― Voltaire
The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. ― Voltaire
Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion. ― Voltaire
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. ― Voltaire
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ― Voltaire
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. ― Voltaire
The superfluous, a very necessary thing. ― Voltaire
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. ― Voltaire
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. ― Voltaire
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. ― Voltaire
The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything. ― Voltaire
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. ― Voltaire
Everyone goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. ― Voltaire
Satire lies about literary men while they live, and eulogy lies about them when they die. ― Voltaire
We cannot wish for that we know not. ― Voltaire
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. ― Voltaire
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. ― Voltaire
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ― Voltaire
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. ― Voltaire
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. ― Voltaire
It is the flash that appears, the thunderbolt will follow. ― Voltaire
