Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did… — 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
It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them. — 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
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated… — 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
