Voltaire quotes.

“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”

“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.”

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”

“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. ”

“History should be written as philosophy.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”

“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”

“Better is the enemy of good.”

“He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.”

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. ”

“The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.”

“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.”

“The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone elses. eyes.”

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”

“We must cultivate our garden. ”

“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.”

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”

“God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.”

“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.”

“Common sense is not so common. ”

“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”

“I hate women because they always know where things are.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ”

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”

“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.”

“Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”