"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire
"A witty saying proves nothing." Voltaire
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." Voltaire
"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." Voltaire
"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." Voltaire
"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death." Voltaire
"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities." Voltaire
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire
"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God." Voltaire
"Common sense is not so common." Voltaire
"All styles are good except the tiresome kind." Voltaire
'Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." Voltaire
"All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women." Voltaire
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination." Voltaire
"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law." Voltaire
"Better is the enemy of good." Voltaire
"But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor." Voltaire
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." Voltaire
"Everything's fine today, that is our illusion." Voltaire
"Fear follows crime and is its punishment." Voltaire
"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce." Voltaire
"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." Voltaire
"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge." Voltaire
"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked." Voltaire
"How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! How horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite." Voltaire
"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted." Voltaire
"I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom." Voltaire
"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." Voltaire
"I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies very ridiculous!" God has granted it to me." Voltaire
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." Voltaire
"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil." Voltaire
"If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new." Voltaire
"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?" Voltaire
"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one." Voltaire
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." Voltaire
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." Voltaire
"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third." Voltaire
"To be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind." Voltaire
"Clever tyrants are never punished." Voltaire
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." Voltaire
"Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts." Voltaire
"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes." Voltaire
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." Voltaire
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." Voltaire
"Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts." Voltaire
"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out." Voltaire
