Famous Quotes / Voltaire
133 Quotations by Voltaire
- 61. It's forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished, unless they kill in large numbers and ...
- 62. Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- 63. Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- 64. Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The ...
- 65. Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended.
- 66. Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those bel ...
- 67. Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
- 68. Love truth, and pardon error.
- 69. Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
- 70. Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- 71. May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
- 72. Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
- 73. Monsieur l'abbe, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to co ...
- 74. My life is a struggle.
- 75. Nature has always had more force than education
- 76. No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking
- 77. Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well ...
- 78. Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- 79. Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
- 80. Optimism is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.