Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Toleration is the prerogative of humanity; we are all full of weaknesses and mistakes; let us reciprocally forgive ourselves. It is the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life — Voltaire Copy Share
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. — Voltaire Copy Share
