Quotes
Quotes - Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.
If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.
