Voltaire's Quotes

Voltaire's Quotes 204

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What...

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it...

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost...

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover...

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter...

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our...

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant...

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a...

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only...

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however,...

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

My life is a struggle.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass...

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our...

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