Quotes
Quotes - Voltaire
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
The king [Frederic] has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier:
Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
In the best of possible worlds the château of monseigneur the baron was the most beautiful of châteaux, and madame the best of possible baronesses.
In this country [England] it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Crush the infamous thing.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
The proper mean.
It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
Love truth, but pardon error.
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
The way to become boring is to say everything.
The way to become boring is to say everything.
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.
History is fables agreed upon.
Better is the enemy of good.
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.
I know I am among civilized men because they are fighting so savagely.
