It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know! — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities,… — 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
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property. — 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
Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out 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
