Famous Quotes
285 Quotations with Voltaire.
- 21. Voltaire: It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
- 22. Voltaire: We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
- 23. Voltaire: Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
- 24. Voltaire: The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human ...
- 25. Voltaire: I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not c ...
- 26. Voltaire: Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
- 27. Voltaire: Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended.
- 28. Voltaire: He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: ROBBER, n. A candid man of affairs.
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- 30. Voltaire: England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
- 31. Voltaire: Canada: A few acres of snow.
- 32. Voltaire: I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won on ...
- 33. Voltaire: Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they d ...
- 34. Voltaire: Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- 35. Voltaire: It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are ...
- 36. Voltaire: The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
- 37. Voltaire: A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the ...
- 38. Voltaire: It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity ...
- 39. Voltaire: Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
- 40. Voltaire: The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one clas ...