Men Quotes by Voltaire

Happiness is not the portion of man.

— Voltaire

God created woman to tame man.

— Voltaire

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

— Voltaire

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

— Voltaire

Men argue. Nature acts.

— Voltaire

Man is free the moment he wants to be.

— Voltaire

God created women only to tame men.

— Voltaire

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

— Voltaire

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

— Voltaire

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing

— Voltaire

You're a bitter man," said Candide. That's because I've lived," said Martin.

— Voltaire

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

— Voltaire

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

— Voltaire

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

— Voltaire

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

— Voltaire

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

— Voltaire

Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth,…

— Voltaire

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a…

— Voltaire

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

— Voltaire

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

— Voltaire

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit…

— Voltaire

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

— Voltaire

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

— Voltaire

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

— Voltaire

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at…

— Voltaire

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence…

— Voltaire

He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical…

— Voltaire

The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability,…

— Voltaire

Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you…

— Voltaire

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands,…

— Voltaire

Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into…

— Voltaire

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors.…

— Voltaire

Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the…

— Voltaire

It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and…

— Voltaire

Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did…

— Voltaire

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

— Voltaire

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

— Voltaire

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

— Voltaire

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

— Voltaire

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

— Voltaire