133 Quotations by Voltaire
- 81. Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
- 82. Pleasure is the object, duty, and the goal of all rational creatures.
- 83. Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
- 84. Regimen is superior to medicine.
- 85. Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals.
- 86. Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
- 87. The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, the amphitheatres, for wild be ...
- 88. The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to ...
- 89. The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit ...
- 90. The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- 91. The English have 42 religions, but only two sauces.
- 92. The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment ...
- 93. The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
- 94. The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
- 95. The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
- 96. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
- 97. The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
- 98. The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- 99. The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
- 100. The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.
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