Seth Messenger : Voltaire's quotes

Voltaire said :

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Voltaire
(Quotes)
#35769
More religion is divine, less it belongs to human control. If God made it, God will support it without you.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35770
Can all men remember that they are brothers, they have hated tyranny exercised on the souls.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35771
God point gave us a heart to hate us and hands to cut our throats.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35772
Less dogma, fewer disputes; less hassles, less of misfortunes.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35773
It would be the height of madness to pretend to bring all men to think in a uniform way.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35774
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to Astronomy: a very wise mother's crazy daughter.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35775
When the men have no healthy notions of divinity, misconceptions are supplement.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35776
Fanaticism today means a crazy religious, dark and cruel. It is a disease of the mind which is earned as smallpox. Books communicate it to much less than the meetings and speeches.

Voltaire
(l'Encyclopédie, 1771)


#35777
There... the play with a majestic enthusiasm, well morguer the public and treat it with the latest insolence.

Voltaire
(Correspondance)


#35778
All of Europe is full-bodied.

Voltaire
(Lettre à Marie Louise Denis)


#35779
There are people who argue that humanity, indulgence and freedom of conscience are terrible things; but in good faith, would they produce calamities?

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35780
Philosophy, this sister of religion, disarmed hands that superstition had so long bloody.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35781
The human mind, in the awakening of his drunkenness, is surprised by the excesses where fanaticism had prevailed.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35782
Point seek to hinder the hearts, and all hearts will be to you.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35783
Our whole continent shows us that we should announce or exercise intolerance.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35784
Excess the largest where can go tolerance was never followed by the slightest dissent.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35785
Tolerance has never excited about civil war, intolerance has covered the land of carnage.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35786
This is not to give immense privileges, the places of safety to a faction, but to let live a peaceful people.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35787
The reason is soft, she's human, she inspired indulgence, she smothers the discord, it strengthens the virtue, she makes nice obedience to the laws.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35788
Ridicule is a powerful barrier against the extravagance of the sectarians.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35789
God commands you to never do your duty, as soon as you fear injustice.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35790
It is unclear how a man could say to another: believe what I believe or you endgame.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35791
The great principle of the Roman people was: it's the gods only caring about the offending the gods.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35792
It served the confession, communion and all the sacraments to commit the most horrible crimes.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35793
Because religion is divine, must rule by hate, torture, the murders?

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35794
Can all men remember that they are brothers.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35795
All the misfortunes of our Peresne have point undeceived us; We experience the miseries which our sons will be affected.

Voltaire
(Précis de l'Ecclésiaste)


#35796
Nothing prevents to be a good judge, a brave warrior, a skilled statesman, when we had a good father calculator.

Voltaire
(Le monde comme il va)


#35797
There is no harm that he was born a good.

Voltaire
(Zadig ou la destinée)


#35798
Short letters and long friendships, this is my motto.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35799
Everything is physical in all species: this is not beef who fights, is the Bull.

Voltaire
(Essai sur les moeurs)


#35800
In this country it is good to kill an Admiral from time to time to encourage others.

Voltaire
(Candide, XXII)


#35801
So that is the human condition that wish the greatness of his country, but wish hard to its neighbors.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique portatif)


#35802
A good year fixing the damage of two bad ones.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique (1764))


#35803
I am sure that if a Peacock could talk, it boast to have a soul, and it looks like his soul is in its tail.

Voltaire
(Zadig ou la Destinée)


#35804
Where danger and advantage are equal, the wonder ceases, and pity even weakens.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35805
The weakness of our reason and the inadequacy of our laws are felt every day.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35806
The abuse of the most holy religion product of major crimes.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35807
It is in the interest of mankind to consider whether religion should be charitable or barbaric.

Voltaire
(Traité sur la Tolérance, 1763)


#35808
To make a good book, it takes a prodigious time and the patience of a saint.

Voltaire
(Lettre à Madame du Deffant - 1er Novembre 1773)


#35809
It is the fate of a hero of persecution.

Voltaire
(Tancrède)


#35810
Without variety, no beauty.

Voltaire
(Lettre à Thiriot - 6 Décembre 1738)


#35811
The mouth badly obeys when the heart murmur.

Voltaire
(Tancrède)


#35812
The genius of our language is the clarity.

Voltaire
(France-français)


#35813
We die in detail.

Voltaire
(Lettre à Madame de Champbonin - 17 Novembre 1764)


#35814
Home is where the soul is chained.

Voltaire
(Le fanatisme)


#35815
The great pleasures, in all the arts, are only for connoisseurs.

Voltaire
(Lettre à Monsieur de Saint-Lambert - 7 Mars 1769)


#35816
That immortal health come down from heaven to take care of all your life!

Voltaire
(Zadig ou la destinée)


#35817
The study has that good that it frees us from the burden of our idleness, and that it prevents us from running off to us, to say and listen to things, from one end of town to the other.

Voltaire
(Lettre à Madame du Deffand - 19 Février 1766)


#35818
Has not the spirit of his age his age has all the unhappiness.

Voltaire
(Stances)


#35819
The good news is always delayed, and the bad ones have wings.

Voltaire
(Lettre à Madame Denis - 16 Mars 1752)


#35820
It is hard to hate those that would love.

Voltaire
(Mahomet)


#35821
One bad example, once given, is capable of corrupting an entire nation, and the habit becomes a tyranny.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35822
Wise woman is more than beautiful woman.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35823
Titles are nothing for posterity: the name of a man who did great things requires more respect than all epithets.

Voltaire
(Le siècle de Louis XIV)


#35824
It is fitting that the people be guided and not educated. When the populace mixes to reason, all is lost.

Voltaire
(Damilaville - 1766)


#35825
Our ideas are no more of us in sleep than in the previous day.

Voltaire
(Contes en vers et en prose - II)


#35826
A nascent and fought passion erupts; a happy love knows how to hide.

Voltaire
(La jalousie)


#35827
When the truth is obvious, it is impossible that it amounts to parties and factions. We haven't played is day at noon.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35828
It always that that is great is attacked by small minds.

Voltaire
(Le Siècle de Louis XIV)


#35829
Every sect of some kind it may be, is the rallying of doubt and the error.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35830
Who do not like to be a dry and heavy.

Voltaire
(Epîtres)


#35831
It's cheerful morning, we're hanging at night.

Voltaire
(Charlot)


#35832
Our temperament is the virtues of our soul.

Voltaire
(Le siècle de Louis XIV)


#35833
For everyone to go to God by the way which pleases!

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35834
When once the slander came into the mind of a King, she is like a drop in a prelate: she no longer dislodges.

Voltaire
(Lettre du 1er Octobre 1752)


#35835
If we do not find pleasant things, we will at least find new things.

Voltaire
(Candide ou l'optimisme)


#35836
There, dying, let repentance marks of friendship to his friends, his enemies, and his reputation among the hands of the public.

Voltaire
(Lettre à Monsieur Koenig - Juin 1753)


#35837
The joke explained ceases to be fun.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35838
Your fates are a man and your vows are to God.

Voltaire
(Discours en vers sur l'homme)


#35839
Fair praise have a scent that we reserve for embalming the dead.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35840
A dead lion is not worth a gnat that breathes.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35841
Infallible proof of the superiority of a nation in the arts of the mind, it is the culture advanced poetry.

Voltaire
(Essai sur l’histoire générale)


#35842
Four beautiful verses are better in a room with a regiment of cavalry.

Voltaire
(Sémiramis)


#35843
Writing is the painting of the voice.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35844
Ever the nature is so debased, when superstitious ignorance is armed with the power.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35845
If it's the best of all possible worlds, that are the others?

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35846
Our priests are not what a vain people think, our credulity made all their science.

Voltaire
(Oedipe)


#35847
The first homework, no doubt, is to be fair; And the first property is the peace in our hearts.

Voltaire
(Poème sur la loi naturelle)


#35848
Is not that suicide is always crazy. But in general, is not in a fit of reason that one kills himself.

Voltaire
(Lettre à M. Mariott - 26 Février 1767)


#35849
If one is not sensitive, we're never sublime.

Voltaire
(Lettre à M. de la Harpe - 11 Août 1766)


#35850
What can be explained in many ways deserve to be explained any.

Voltaire
(Le siècle de Louis XIV)


#35851
Most of the great captains have become such by degrees.

Voltaire
(Le siècle de Louis XIV)


#35852
Our imperfect senses, given by nature, our property, our ills are the only measure.

Voltaire
(Discours en vers sur l’homme)


#35853
Man is born to live in the convulsions of anxiety or lethargy of boredom.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35854
The way to annoy is to mean everything.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35855
Those who seek metaphysical causes laughter are not gay.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35856
Of all the republics, the letters is, without a doubt, the most ridiculous.

Voltaire
(Lettre au censeur marin)


#35857
I only know of serious down here the cultivation of the vine.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35858
The amazement is followed by silence.

Voltaire
(La pucelle d'Orléans)


#35859
We got older, a great pleasure that should not be overlooked, it is to count the impertinent and impertinent we saw die, and the crowd of ridiculous who passed in front of the eyes.

Voltaire
(Madame du Deffand)


#35860
Doctors administer drugs that they know very little, to patients which they know less, to cure the diseases which they know nothing.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35861
When a question raises violently conflicting views, we can ensure that it belongs to the field of belief and not to the knowledge.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35862
We don't know exactly where the angels stand, if it is in the air, in a vacuum, in the planets: God did not we were educated.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire Philosophique)


#35863
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, in Matt superstition.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35864
When we lost everything, when there is no hope, life is a disgrace and a death duty.

Voltaire
(Mérope)


#35865
We are born, we live, Shepherdess, we die without knowing how; Each went from nothing: where is he going? God knows, my dear.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35866
You should know to learn in the gaiety. The sad knowledge is dead. Intelligence is joy.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35867
He must be careful, but not shy.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35868
An author is little own to correct the leaves of his own works: it always reads as he wrote and not as it is printed.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35869
We love life, but nothingness does not leave for good.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35870
The art of governing is to take as much money as possible to a category of citizens in order to give it to another.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35871
The hypocrite smiled, the character barks.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35872
Point of name-calling, a lot of irony and cheerfulness: name-calling revolt, irony to get people in themselves, the gaiety disarms.

Voltaire
(Lettre à d'Argental)


#35873
No, if you want to make the friendly Christian religion, never talk about martyrs; We had one hundred times more than the Gentiles.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35874
When gravity is in keeping, as very often happens, said seriously to nonsense.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35875
As despotism is the abuse of royalty, anarchy is the abuse of democracy.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35876
It is the superstition that did sacrifice human victims, is the need that made them eat.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35877
The people gets religion, laws, such as currency, without looking at it.

Voltaire
(Le Sottisier)


#35878
Many errors were born of a truth abused.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35879
The Savages don't point decide to kill himself by disgust for life; It is a refinement of minded people.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35880
Life is that of boredom or whipped cream.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35881
The french genius is lost; He wants to become English, Dutch and German. We are monkeys who have renounced our pretty gambols, for poorly imitate oxen and bears.

Voltaire
(Madame du Boccage)


#35882
Men are like animals: the big eat the small and the small bite them.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35883
Time, that fact alone the reputation of men, at the end makes their respectable defects.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35884
We teach all men, virtue, religion.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35885
It is the love of ourselves who attends the love of others; It is through our mutual needs that we are useful to the human race.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35886
Who wants to destroy the passions, rather than settle them, wants to make the Angel.

Voltaire
(Lettres Philosophiques)


#35887
Metaphysics is the novel of the spirit.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35888
You die twice in this low world first by losing the favor of Venus.peu matter to me the second. It's good when you love more.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35889
The theatre is the first and the last trades.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35890
The flirtatious woman is the approval of others and the evil that possesses it.

Voltaire
(Epîtres)


#35891
The men, with wise laws, have always been senseless customs.

Voltaire
(Essais sur les moeurs)


#35892
Responding to a man who says he likes better obey God than men and that, accordingly, is sure to merit heaven in you invoke?

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35893
Talkers are more discreet men: they speak to say nothing.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35894
The first soothsayer was the first rogue who met a fool.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35895
There is an another scoundrel that we sacrifice everything, and this scoundrel is the people.

Voltaire
(Lettre au marquis de Condorcet)


#35896
The heart does not age, but it is painful to live a God in ruins.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35897
Hide, according to King and Maid.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35898
There is a chance; everything is trial, punishment, reward, or foresight.

Voltaire
(L’Ermite)


#35899
Not be busy and does not exist it is the same thing.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35900
By any country, the dominant religion, when she persecutes point, engulfs the long all the others.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35901
In court, my son, art the most Necessairen' is not to speak well, but be quiet.

Voltaire
(L’Indiscret)


#35902
It's a mechanical instinct, which is the majority of men, that we have all the arts, and in no way healthy philosophy.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35903
It took centuries to do justice to humanity, to feel that it is horrible that the large number semât and the small number gathered.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35904
It's certainly not know the human heart to think you can stir it through fiction.

Voltaire
(Sémiramis)


#35905
In works of taste, music, poetry, painting, it is the taste that takes the place of watch; and who is to judge by judge evil rules.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35906
It soon blush of its decisions, if you wanted to reflect on the reasons for which determines itself.

Voltaire
(Lettre - 1719)


#35907
The most amazing inventions and useful are not those who make as much honor to the human spirit.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35908
Philosophers will never a sect of religion. What for? It's that he write point to the people, and there are no enthusiasm.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35909
If men were unfortunate enough to not take care of the present, one view point, you'd point, you lose, we don't pourvoirait nothing: we miss everything in the middle of this false enjoyment.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35910
Among those who read, there are twenty who read novels, to one who is studying philosophy. The number of those who think is exceedingly small, and those don't decide not to disturb the world.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35911
If it was in England that a religion, despotism would be to fear; If there were two, they will cut the throat; but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happy.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35912
Who still believes the crime seems too capable.

Voltaire
(Eriphile)


#35913
Any mortal to the pleasure must have its existence; The body is by him, the heart feels, the mind thinks.

Voltaire
(Discours en vers sur l’homme)


#35914
Happiness is a good sells to us by nature.

Voltaire
(Discours en vers sur l’homme)


#35915
If my friends are happy, I'll be less miserable.

Voltaire
(Sur l’usage de la vie)


#35916
Women are like weather vanes: they bind when they rust.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35917
A moment of happiness is worth a thousand years in history.

Voltaire
(Commentaire historique)


#35918
The earthly paradise is where I am.

Voltaire
(Satires)


#35919
I'm not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the end so that you can tell.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35920
The resurrection is a natural idea; It is no more surprising to be born twice than once.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35921
My friend means my slave. My dear friend means you're more than indifferent.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35922
A geometric point is an abstraction of the mind.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35923
If fools still want Acorn, let them eat; but find it good that they are presented with bread.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35924
Men are wrong, great men admit they are wrong.

Voltaire
(Le Sottisier)


#35925
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by translating each word upset the sense! This is, indeed, you could say that the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35926
It is the censorship of violent to accredit the opinions she attacks.

Voltaire
(Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne)


#35927
The art of the quote is the art of those who do not think by them - even.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35928
Prejudices, friend, are the Kings of the vulgar.

Voltaire
(Le fanatisme ou Mohamed le prophète)


#35929
The pleasure gives what wisdom promises.

Voltaire
(Le sottisier)


#35930
God has put in the hearts of all consciousness of good with some inclination to evil.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35931
Use, don't overuse; Neither abstinence nor excess make a happy man.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35932
Engineering is a century, after which, to that it degenerates.

Voltaire
(Le siècle de Louis XIV)


#35933
It is the privilege of true genius, and especially engineering that opens a career to do away with big mistakes.

Voltaire
(Le siècle de Louis XIV)


#35934
We all also men, but not equal members of society.

Voltaire
(Pensées sur l'administration)


#35935
It is not our condition, is the caliber of our soul that makes us happy.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35936
Happiness was once a most happy hour.

Voltaire
(Le sottisier)


#35937
Ask a toad that's that beauty: he says it's his Toad with two big round eyes out of her little head... Ask the devil he will tell you that beauty is a pair of horns, four claws and a tail.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35938
Happiness is an abstract word composed of some ideas of fun.

Voltaire
(Le sottisier)


#35939
The pleasure is faster than happiness and bliss happiness.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35940
A dictionary without quotes is a skeleton.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35941
Pleasure is the object, the duty is the goal. Of all reasonable.

Voltaire
(Stances)


#35942
This world, this theater and pride and error, is full of unfortunates who speak of happiness.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35943
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the crazy girl of a very wise mother.

Voltaire
(Politique et législation)


#35944
It is the fate of the monarchies that their prosperity depends on the character of one man.

Voltaire
(Le siècle de Louis XIV)


#35945
It is called (the opinion) the Queen of the world. She did so well, that when the right wants to fight it, the reason is sentenced to death.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35946
I think, all reflections, that he should never think of death; This thought is good than to poison the life; the big deal is to not suffer.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35947
Politeness is the espritCe grace is at the face.

Voltaire
(Stances)


#35948
Mortals are equal; It is not the naissanceC' is the only virtue that makes the difference.

Voltaire
(Eriphile)


#35949
The homeland is where it lives happy.

Voltaire
(Le siècle de Louis XIV)


#35950
God made the repentance of mortal virtue.

Voltaire
(Olympie)


#35951
Such shines in second place who disappeared on the first.

Voltaire
(La Henriade)


#35952
Home is where the soul is chained.

Voltaire
(Le Fanatisme ou Mohamed le prophète)


#35953
Love. It's the stuff of nature that the imagination has embroidered.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35954
If man is created free, it must govern themselves; If the man has bullies, must dethrone.

Voltaire
(Sept discours en vers sur l'homme)


#35955
A Republic is point based on virtue; It is the ambition of every citizen, which contains the ambition of others.

Voltaire
(Politique et législation)


#35956
Do you think we can make love without uttering a Word?

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35957
The time is long enough for anyone who gains; Who works and who thinks extends the limit.

Voltaire
(Discours en vers sur l'homme)


#35958
Love truth, but forgive the error.

Voltaire
(Discours en vers sur l'homme)


#35959
The clever man is one who makes great use of what he knows; the able can, and the skillful runs.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35960
The glory is the reputation attached to self-esteem; It is at the climax, when admiration joined.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35961
Untamed courage, in the heart of mortals, makes great heroes or serious criminals.

Voltaire
(Rome sauvée)


#35962
Atrocious insults have never done harm to those who say them.

Voltaire
(Conseil à Louis Racine)


#35963
The art of war is, like that of medicine, deadly and conjectural.

Voltaire
(Le Sottisier)


#35964
What we call luck is and can only be ignored cause of a known effect.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35965
The real passions give strength, giving courage.

Voltaire
(Correspondance)


#35966
In philosophy, we distrust what you believe you hear things you don't hear too easily, as well.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35967
It's not to pay his debts but to deny fair praise.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35968
Anyone who thinks reminds.

Voltaire
(Fragments sur l'histoire)


#35969
Those who argued that everything is said a folly: to say that all is for the best.

Voltaire
(Candide ou l'optimisme)


#35970
A too quick judgment is often without justice.

Voltaire
(Catalina)


#35971
All power, in a Word, perished by the indulgence.

Voltaire
(Alzire)


#35972
Never use a new Word, unless it has these three qualities: be necessary, intelligible and sound.

Voltaire
(Conseils à un journaliste)


#35973
All genres are good off the boring kind.

Voltaire
(L’enfant prodigue)


#35974
A merit of poetry, it's says more than taking, and in less words than the prose.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35975
In your youth do love, and your salvation in your old age.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35976
I stop to die if he came me a good word.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35977
Men never have remorse for the things they are use to.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35978
Must this man could be a big ignorant, because it responds to everything asked of him.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35979
When a man speaks to another man, who doesn't, and who speaks does not understand, they are metaphysics.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35980
Politics is the art of lying about.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35981
The vices of the spirit can be corrected; When the heart is bad, nothing can change it.

Voltaire
(Charlot)


#35982
Know that the secret of the arts to correct nature.

Voltaire
(Épître à monsieur de Verrière)


#35983
The discord is the biggest lot of mankind, and tolerance is the only cure.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35984
We can't live in the world without illusions; and as soon as we had a little, all illusions vanish.

Voltaire
(Correspondance)


#35985
The countries where trade is more free will always be the richest and most successful, relatively speaking.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#35986
Rudder which can; and when it came to be the master, we govern as can be.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35987
When you read to learn, we see what has escaped, when we read with the eyes.

Voltaire
(Correspondance)


#35988
The reason is the daughter of time, and she expects everything from his father.

Voltaire
(L'homme aux quarante écus)


#35989
The sentence has its pleasures, the risk has its charms.

Voltaire
(La Henriade)


#35990
If the opinion is the Queen of the world, philosophers govern this Queen.

Voltaire
(Lettre à D'Alembert)


#35991
Men have been, are and will be carried out by events.

Voltaire
(Lettre au Duc de Choiseul du 13 Juillet 1761)


#35992
The truth is a fruit that must be picked up unless it is quite mature.

Voltaire
(Lettre à la Comtesse de Barcewitz)


#35993
In the opinion that there is a God there may be difficulties, but in the contrary view is nonsense. Also recognize that there is a God is the more likely that men might think.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#35994
God? We welcome us, but we don't speak.

Voltaire
(Correspondance)


#35995
Why is there so much evil, all being formed by God that all theists agreed to appoint good?

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#35996
What point money? And ambition! Poor unwary! Learn that in this royaumeTous honors are based on good, nothing is nothing, that nothing is worth nothing.

Voltaire
(Satires)


#35997
Philosophy clearly shows us that there is a God, but is powerless to teach us what it is, how and why it does. It would be itself to know.

Voltaire
(Mélanges de philosophie)


#35998
You must spend your life to love and thinking; This is the true life of the spirits.

Voltaire
(Micromégas)


#35999
Must be fun to govern big, since so many people want to get involved.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36000
So, what is the destiny of the human race? Almost no big people is ruled by himself.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#36001
The French are not made for freedom. They in abusing.

Voltaire
(Lettre au prince de Prusse - Octobre 1737)


#36002
Nature made us frivolous to console us in our misery.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36003
The soldiers put on their knees when they shoot: apparently to ask forgiveness for the murder.

Voltaire
(Le sottisier)


#36004
Pray to God it's boast that with words, we'll change the nature.

Voltaire
(Le Sottisier)


#36005
Bed discovers secrets.

Voltaire
(Le Sottisier)


#36006
Grammarians are for authors which a luthier for a musician.

Voltaire
(Pensées, remarques et observations)


#36007
Fanaticism is a monster who dares to say the son of religion.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36008
It is not to be good for nothing than to be good about yourself.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36009
Happiness is often the only thing that we can give without having and it's giving it acquires it.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36010
In terms of taste, each must be the master at home.

Voltaire
(Discours historique et critique)


#36011
A doctor is someone who pays drugs he knows little in a body he knows less.

Voltaire
(Epigrammes)


#36012
The french speak quickly and act slowly.

Voltaire
(Lettre au Comte d'Argental)


#36013
Half of the Switzerland is hell, and the other half heaven.

Voltaire
(Lettre à James Mariott)


#36014
The fable is the older sister of history.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#36015
Know revenge, to suffer.

Voltaire
(Mérope)


#36016
Humility is the antidote to pride.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#36017
Backbiting is daughter of self-love and idleness.

Voltaire
(Epîtres)


#36018
Courage is not a virtue, but a quality common to the scoundrels and great men.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36019
Although there are many books, believe me, few people read; and among those who read, there are many who don't use their eyes.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36020
You have a religion and do not believe the priests; as you need plan and does not believe in doctors.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36021
I approach slowly from the moment of philosophers and fools have the same destiny.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36022
This is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that the virginity could be a virtue.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36023
It is not God who created man, but the man who created God.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36024
The man must be cheering to be frivolous; If it was not, it dry of pain, thinking that he was born for a day, between two eternities, and suffer eleven hours at least twelve.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36025
The alphabet was the origin of all knowledge of the man and all his nonsense.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#36026
The Kings are with their Ministers as cuckolds with their wives: they never know what is happening.

Voltaire
(Le sottisier)


#36027
A historian is a bulletin board that makes harassment to the dead.

Voltaire
(Le sottisier)


#36028
Hope is a food of our soul, always mixed with the poison of fear.

Voltaire
(Le sottisier)


#36029
The Incas had palaces inlaid with gold and covered with straw: emblem of many Governments.

Voltaire
(Le sottisier)


#36030
The words are thoughts that gold is to diamonds; It is necessary to implement, but it takes so little.

Voltaire
(Le Sottisier)


#36031
I count more on the zeal of a man hoping a great reward on a man the have received.

Voltaire
(Remarques sur les pensées de Pascal)


#36032
We found, in good policy, the secret to starve those who, by cultivating the Earth, live the others.

Voltaire
(Le Sottisier)


#36033
If you see a banker jumping out of the window, jump behind him: you can be sure that there is some profit taking.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36034
What is worse, is that war is an inevitable evil.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#36035
When it comes to money, everyone is of the same religion.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36036
That the torture of criminals are useful. A hanged man is no good, and a man sentenced to public works still serves the homeland and is a living lesson.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#36037
Who knows love and caring is above everything.

Voltaire
(Lettre à Mme Denis (sa nièce))


#36038
Work away from us three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire
(Candide ou l'optimisme)


#36039
Exterminate, great gods of the Earth where we are, anyone who with pleasure spreading the blood of men!

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36040
Repeat daily to all men: morality is one, it comes from God; dogmas are different, they come to us.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#36041
There is perhaps nothing so crazy to believe always being right.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#36042
Any joke must be short, and even seriously should be short too.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#36043
Men hate the miser because there is nothing to win with him.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36044
Notice that the more superstitious times have always been those of the most horrible crimes.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#36045
The specific woes make the general good; so that more private misfortunes there and more all is well.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36046
I decided to be happy because it's good for the health.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36047
This world is a vast shipwreck: run for your life!

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36048
Politics has its source in the perversity more than in the greatness of the human spirit.

Voltaire
(Le sottisier)


#36049
We see of course that all religions have borrowed all their dogmas and their rituals from the other.

Voltaire
(De l'acoran et de la loi musulmane)


#36050
The truths are fruits that should be picked as well walls.

Voltaire
(Correspondance)


#36051
The misfortune of some makes the happiness of others.

Voltaire
(Candide ou l'optimisme)


#36052
I lose my teeth. I die in detail.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36053
The art of medicine is to distract the patient while nature heals.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36054
Doubt is an unpleasant state of mind, but the certainty is ridiculous.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36055
The Pope is an idol to which we tie the hands and who we fuck feet.

Voltaire
(Le Sottisier)


#36056
The superfluous, if necessary.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36057
Any law to be clear, uniform and precise: interpreting it, it is almost always corrupt.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#36058
Fanaticism is a thousand times more dangerous than philosophical atheism Monster.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#36059
Who supports his madness by the murder, is a fanatic.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#36060
This is usually a difficult task: it neglects what precedes and what follows the place one calls, and are exposed to a thousand quarrels.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#36061
It is still little defeat gotta seduce.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36062
We're sometimes more criminal than you think.

Voltaire
(Oedipe)


#36063
And forgiving the crime becomes an accomplice.

Voltaire
(Brutus)


#36064
The Jewish religion, mother of Christianity, Mohammedanism grandmother, beaten by his son and his grandson.

Voltaire
(Le sottisier)


#36065
Could never succeed in the world, revenge by to gossip.

Voltaire
(L'envieux)


#36066
So many books made on paint by experts educate not so much a student than the mere sight of a head of Raphael.

Voltaire
(Oedipe)


#36067
The world with slow walk towards wisdom.

Voltaire
(Les Lois de Minos)


#36068
Variety, that's my motto.

Voltaire
(Correspondance)


#36069
Woe to the details, posterity neglect them all.

Voltaire
(Correspondance)


#36070
Great things are often easier than you might think.

Voltaire
(Correspondance)


#36071
Work without reason; It is the only way to make life bearable.

Voltaire
(Candide ou l'optimisme)


#36072
All sizes of this world are not worth a good friend.

Voltaire
(Jeannot et Colin)


#36073
The history of the greatest princes often is the story of the faults of men.

Voltaire
(Le siècle de Louis XIV)


#36074
I would always prefer things to words, and thinking to rhyme.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#36075
When you travel by the way, we're taking the abuse for the laws of the country.

Voltaire
(Le Sottisier)


#36076
Human reason is so little able to demonstrate by itself the immortality of the soul that the religion has been forced to reveal it to us.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#36077
Time softens everything.

Voltaire
(L'Ingénu)


#36078
The men watered strong liquor all have embittered and adult blood which makes them crazy in a hundred different ways.

Voltaire
(La princesse de Babylone)


#36079
Reading enlarges the soul, and a friend informed the console.

Voltaire
(L'Ingénu)


#36080
Each profession has a vice and a danger attached.

Voltaire
(L'ingénu)


#36081
The Greeks wrote so many phrases and so little.

Voltaire
(La princesse de Babylone)


#36082
It's one that dominates on the spirits with the force of truth, not to those who are slaves by violence, we have to pay our respects.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#36083
Enthusiasm is a disease that is earned.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#36084
The superstitious are in society what cowards are in an army: they have, and give panic terrors.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#36085
There is no country on Earth where love has rendered the poets lovers.

Voltaire
(L'ingénu)


#36086
Poetry is a kind of music: you have to hear to judge.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#36087
Cheat at the game without winning is a fool.

Voltaire
(Eloge de l'hypocrisie)


#36088
No one would want to die, no one would want to be reborn.

Voltaire
(Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne)


#36089
I play with life, madame; She is good at it.

Voltaire
(Correspondance)


#36090
Virtue is demeans for justification.

Voltaire
(Oedipe)


#36091
Perhaps we do not know the reports that may be between a spider and the ring of Saturn, and continue to examine what is within our reach.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#36092
Passions are the winds that swells the sails of the ship; they sometimes overwhelm him, but without them it could sail.

Voltaire
(Zadig ou la destinée)


#36093
We always talk bad when we have nothing to say.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36094
Slanderers are like fire that blackens the Green wood, not being able to burn it.

Voltaire
(Le Sottisier)


#36095
We all seek happiness, but without knowing where, like drunks looking for their home, knowing confusedly that they have one.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36096
For most men, to correct is to change of defects.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36097
Can desire what we do not know.

Voltaire
(Zaïre)


#36098
There is a chance.

Voltaire
(Zadig ou la destinée)


#36099
Beauty like in the eyes, the gentle charm the soul.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36100
Fear follows crime, and his punishment.

Voltaire
(Sémiramis)


#36101
The spirit is the opposite of money; less we have, the more satisfied.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36102
Self-esteem is an inflated balloon of wind which he storms when you make a shot.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36103
If God made us in his image, we him him well made.

Voltaire
(Le sottisier)


#36104
The world resembles an old coquette who disguises his age.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36105
We respect the dead than the living. He would have had respect each and others.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire philosophique)


#36106
What man is without error? And what a King without weakness?

Voltaire
(Brutus)


#36107
We prefer his equal as his master.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36108
We don't have new discoveries in the human heart.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36109
It's not to be worthless to be good about yourself.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36110
The secret of boring is to say everything.

Voltaire
(Mélanges)


#36111
It is not for us to be not poor, but it still depends on us to enforce our poverty.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36112
If you printed that useful, there is hundred times less books.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36113
Nothing is easier to make than a bad book, if not a bad review.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36114
The moment we are born is a step toward death.

Voltaire
(Supplément aux Mélanges de Poésie)


#36115
A book is excusable only he learns something.

Voltaire
(Lettre à Damilaville)


#36116
What can be concluded at the end of my long words? Prejudice is the reason of fools.

Voltaire
(Poème sur la Loi Naturelle)


#36117
Men in general are similar to dogs that howl when they hear by far other dogs howl.

Voltaire
(Fragments historiques)


#36118
At all times, in all places, the public is unfair.

Voltaire
(Epître à Melle Clairon)


#36119
The compliments are fools Protocol.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36120
Rivers are faster than rushing into the sea than men in error.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36121
The weaknesses of men are the strength of women.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36122
Almost always the things we say hit less than the way in which they are said.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36123
Who cannot sympathize with the pain he has suffered.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36124
Love who you love.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36125
There's nothing more ridiculous than a doctor who does not die of old age.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36126
The present labor, said to be from the future.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36127
I pity the man overwhelmed with the weight of his leisure.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36128
The beauty is only a trap set by nature to reason.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36129
The friendship of a great man is a godsend.

Voltaire
(Oedipe)


#36130
I was disgusted by the legal profession, it is the profusion of unnecessary things which they tried to charge my brain. By the way! is my motto.

Voltaire
(Lettre au marquis d'Argenson)


#36131
This isn't love needed paint blind, it's self-esteem.

Voltaire
(Lettre - 11 Mai 1764)


#36132
More you meditated, it is in condition to affirm that we know nothing.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36133
The ear is the way of the heart.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36134
The cautious is good, the righteous to others.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36135
Often despair won battles.

Voltaire
(La Henriade)


#36136
I like small streams; they are transparent because they are shallow.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36137
Most words are of the repetitions.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36138
Education develops the faculties, but does not create them.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36139
I count more on the role of a man hoping a great reward on a man the have received.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36140
There is that workers who know the value of time; they will always pay.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36141
The best Government is one where there is the least amount of useless men.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36142
Those who cultivate fertile land have a great advantage over those who are cleared.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36143
It is great conqueror point which is not great policy. A conqueror is a man whose head is used, with a happy skill, the arms of others.

Voltaire
(Essai sur les moeurs)


#36144
One can judge the character of the men by their companies.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36145
It's better late than evil, and this in any kind.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36146
Say the secret of others is a betrayal, say his is foolish.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36147
The beautiful minds meet.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36148
More men will be informed and they will be free.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36149
The only way to force the men to speak well of us, it is to make.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36150
The pain is as necessary as death.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36151
He should be ashamed of mistakes and not to admit them.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36152
Is a good weight weighing only a name too soon famous.

Voltaire
(La Henriade)


#36153
Always fun is not fun.

Voltaire
(Zadig ou la destinée)


#36154
Anyone who is suspicious calls to betray him.

Voltaire
(Zaïre)


#36155
If the man was perfect, it would be God.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#36156
Each science, each study has its unintelligible jargon, which seems not to be invented to defend the approaches.

Voltaire
(Essai sur la poésie épique)


#36157
We need ways to the living; We need the dead than the truth.

Voltaire
(Oedipe)


#36158
Men are insects are devouring each other on a tiny atom of mud.

Voltaire
(Zadig ou la destinée)


#36159
Happy is he who enjoys pleasantly in the world! More happy who cares and who runs!

Voltaire
(Lettre)


#36160
God gave us the live; It is to live us to give us the good.

Voltaire
(Le sottisier)


#36161
When have well said you that life is a child it takes to rock until he falls asleep, I'd say what I know.

Voltaire
(Correspondance)


#36162
Can, to debase, to stoop under the gods, fear them and serve them.

Voltaire
(Sémiramis)


#36163
Inveterate abuses are self-correcting over time.

Voltaire
(Eloge funèbre de Louis XV)


#36164
A proverb is not a reason.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36165
Some authority on men, to be distinguished from them. That's why the magistrates and priests have square caps.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36166
If he had to choose, I'd hate the tyranny of one than many less. A despot has always a few moments; a meeting of bullies has never.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36167
Politics is the first of the arts and the last trades.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36168
Natural law is the instinct that makes us feel justice.

Voltaire
(Dictionnaire Philosophique)


#36169
Is it not shameful that fanatics have the zeal and the wise do not?

Voltaire
(Pensées détachées de M. l’abbé de Saint-Pierre)


#36170
I did a bit of good, it is my best work.

Voltaire
(Epîtres à Horace)


#36171
The big deal and the only one we have, it's to live happily.

Voltaire
(Lettre)


#36172
Man is born for action, as the fire tends at the top and the stone at the bottom.

Voltaire
(Sur les pensées de M. Pascal)


#36173
The first step, my son, that is in is one that depends on the rest of our days.

Voltaire
(L’Indiscret)


#36174
The world embarrass me and I don't then consider that this clock exists and has no watchmaker.

Voltaire
(Les Cabales)


#36175
The interest I have to believe a thing is not proof of the existence of this thing.

Voltaire
(Lettres philosophiques)


#36176
Nothing happens without a bit of enthusiasm.

Voltaire
(Lettre)


#36177
The human species is the only one who knows that she must die.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


#36178
If God did not exist, it should be invented.

Voltaire
(Epître)


#36179
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to convict an innocent man.

Voltaire
(Zadig ou la destinée)


#36180
God created women to tame men.

Voltaire
(L’ingénu)


#36181
Someday, everything will be fine, that's our Esperancetout is well today, that's the illusion.

Voltaire
(Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne)


#37554
It is not that suicide is always madness. But, in general, it is not in a fit of reason that one kills oneself.

Voltaire
(Source inconnue)


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