Famous Quotes / Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
145 Quotations by Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
- 101. The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
- 102. The best is the enemy of the good.
- 103. The best way to be boring is to include everything.
- 104. The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
- 105. The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
- 106. The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
- 107. The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
- 108. The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
- 109. The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God, whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image o ...
- 110. The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- 111. The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
- 112. The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
- 113. The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
- 114. The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
- 115. The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
- 116. The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of p ...
- 117. The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
- 118. The superfluous is very necessary.
- 119. The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
- 120. The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.