133 Quotations by Voltaire
- 101. The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and ...
- 102. The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
- 103. The secret of being boring is to say everything.
- 104. The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
- 105. The superfluous is very necessary.
- 106. The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
- 107. There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
- 108. There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far ...
- 109. Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
- 110. This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither h ...
- 111. This is no time to make new enemies.
- 112. This poem will never reach its destination.
- 113. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- 114. Though one sits in meditation in a particular place, the Self in him can exercise its influence far ...
- 115. To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
- 116. To hold a pen is to be at war.
- 117. To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
- 118. True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
- 119. Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
- 120. Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
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