Voltaire Quotes

Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

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Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.

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Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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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.

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Business is the salt of life.

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May God defend me from my friends I can defend myself from my enemies.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.

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Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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No snowflake in an avalanch ever feels responsible.

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The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.

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Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.

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We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.

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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.

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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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