We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars,… — 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 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 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
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred… — 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
