In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.” — 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
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell… — 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
