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
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of… — 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
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
