I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists:… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result… — 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
Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they… — 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
