--- title: "10 Hundred Quotes By Voltaire" description: "10 Hundred quotes by Voltaire. Plus more from Voltaire and more Hundred sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4be/voltaire-173_doing-good_the-opportunity-for-doing-mischief-is-fo_2275290.png" --- > [The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/the-opportunity-for-doing-mischief-is-found-a-hundred-times-a-day-and/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4be/voltaire-173_doing-good_the-opportunity-for-doing-mischief-is-fo_2275290.png) > [We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/we-have-our-arts-the-ancients-had-theirs-we-cannot-raise-obelisks-a/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/add/voltaire-173_art_we-have-our-arts-the-ancients-had-theirs_1574072.png) > [Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/religion-may-be-purified-this-great-work-was-begun-two-hundred-years/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8df/voltaire-173_bears_religion-may-be-purified-this-great-work_754623.png) > [I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/i-would-rather-obey-a-fine-lion-much-stronger-than-myself-than-two/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d8/voltaire-173_fine_i-would-rather-obey-a-fine-lion-much-str_1013884.png) > [For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/for-seventeen-hundred-years-the-christian-sect-has-done-nothing-but/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/voltaire-173_christian_for-seventeen-hundred-years-the-christia_1112773.png) > [Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/men-fed-upon-carnage-and-drinking-strong-drinks-have-all-an/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b99/voltaire-173_blood_men-fed-upon-carnage-and-drinking-strong_230177.jpg) > [All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/all-is-a-miracle-the-stupendous-order-of-nature-the-revolution-of-a/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/640/voltaire-173_activity_all-is-a-miracle-the-stupendous-order-of_1548029.jpg) > [I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/i-should-like-to-know-which-is-worse-to-be-ravished-a-hundred-times/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/920/voltaire-173_bulgarians_i-should-like-to-know-which-is-worse-to_975075.png) > [I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/i-have-been-a-hundred-times-on-the-point-of-killing-myself-but-still/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a3/voltaire-173_absurd_i-have-been-a-hundred-times-on-the-point_204022.png) > [I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/i-have-wanted-to-kill-myself-a-hundred-times-but-somehow-i-am-still/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/voltaire-173_burden_i-have-wanted-to-kill-myself-a-hundred-t_70304.jpg) ## Other authors on Hundred ## More by Voltaire > [In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/in-every-province-the-chief-occupations-in-order-of-importance-are/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/fanaticism-to-which-men-are-so-much-inclined-has-always-served-not/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [History is the study of the world's crime](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/history-is-the-study-of-the-world-s-crime/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/we-re-neither-pure-nor-wise-nor-good-we-do-the-best-we-know/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/it-is-with-books-as-with-men-a-very-small-number-play-a-great-part/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/meslier-was-the-most-singular-phenomenon-ever-seen-among-all-the/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/every-sensible-man-every-honorable-man-must-hold-the-christian-sect/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/being-unable-to-make-people-more-reasonable-i-preferred-to-be-happy/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/when-his-highness-sends-a-ship-to-egypt-does-he-trouble-his-head/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/madness-is-to-think-of-too-many-things-in-succession-too-fast-or-of/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/god-gave-us-the-gift-of-life-it-is-up-to-us-to-give-ourselves-the/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/it-is-not-inequality-which-is-the-real-misfortune-it-is-dependence/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/providence-has-given-us-hope-and-sleep-as-a-compensation-for-the-many/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/men-use-thought-only-to-justify-their-wrong-doings-and-employ-speech/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/work-spares-us-from-three-evils-boredom-vice-and-need/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hundred/voltaire/#itemlist", "name": "10 Hundred Quotes By Voltaire", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Voltaire" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/the-opportunity-for-doing-mischief-is-found-a-hundred-times-a-day-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4be/voltaire-173_doing-good_the-opportunity-for-doing-mischief-is-fo_2275290.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4be/voltaire-173_doing-good_the-opportunity-for-doing-mischief-is-fo_2275290.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4be/voltaire-173_doing-good_the-opportunity-for-doing-mischief-is-fo_2275290.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.” — Voltaire", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... 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