133 Quotations by Voltaire
- 41. I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
- 42. Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
- 43. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
- 44. If God made us in his image, we have more than repaid the compliment
- 45. If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais ...
- 46. If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him
- 47. If we can't find something pleasant, we will at least find something new.
- 48. If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirt ...
- 49. In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the ...
- 50. In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, lived a ...
- 51. Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
- 52. It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not ...
- 53. It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
- 54. It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
- 55. It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
- 56. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and ...
- 57. It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
- 58. It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
- 59. It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
- 60. It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap.
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