Men Quotes by Voltaire

Men argue. Nature acts.

— Voltaire

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

— Voltaire

God created woman to tame man.

— Voltaire

Happiness is not the portion of man.

— Voltaire

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

— Voltaire

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

— Voltaire

Man is free the moment he wants to be.

— Voltaire

God created women only to tame men.

— Voltaire

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

— Voltaire

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

— Voltaire

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

— Voltaire

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

— Voltaire

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

— Voltaire

The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do,…

— Voltaire

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are…

— Voltaire

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

— Voltaire

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

— Voltaire

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

— Voltaire

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

— Voltaire

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever…

— Voltaire

Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into…

— Voltaire

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands,…

— Voltaire

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors.…

— Voltaire

The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability,…

— Voltaire

Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you…

— Voltaire

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence…

— Voltaire

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at…

— Voltaire

He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical…

— Voltaire

Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the…

— Voltaire

It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and…

— Voltaire

Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did…

— Voltaire

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

— Voltaire

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

— Voltaire

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

— Voltaire