“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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 Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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 Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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 Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
