And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of… — 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
