Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physicians, ninety-eight are charlatans — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. — 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
I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“It must also be noted that until the present time this malady, like religious controversy, has been wholly confined to the continent… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I've wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but I still love life. That ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. — 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
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