--- title: "Best Men Sayings by Voltaire" description: "104 Men quotes by Voltaire. Plus more from Voltaire and more Men sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b38/voltaire-173_certain_man-can-have-only-a-certain-number-of-te_766006.png" --- > [Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/man-can-have-only-a-certain-number-of-teeth-hair-and-ideas-there/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b38/voltaire-173_certain_man-can-have-only-a-certain-number-of-te_766006.png) > [Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/martin-in-particular-concluded-that-man-was-born-to-live-either-in/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d6/voltaire-173_bored_martin-in-particular-concluded-that-man_2126416.png) > [What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/what-will-the-preachers-say-to-teach-men-not-to-persecute-men-for/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67d/voltaire-173_burning_what-will-the-preachers-say-to-teach-men_1473349.png) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c3/voltaire-173_fanaticism_fanaticism-to-which-men-are-so-much-incl_2965.png) > [Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/men-use-thought-only-as-authority-for-their-injustice-and-employ/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31e/voltaire-173_authority_men-use-thought-only-as-authority-for-th_1356578.png) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/360/voltaire-173_communication_men-use-thought-only-to-justify-their-wr_37129.png) > [When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/when-men-do-not-have-healthy-notions-of-the-divinity-false-ideas/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faf/voltaire-173_bad_when-men-do-not-have-healthy-notions-of_793012.png) > [When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/when-a-man-is-in-love-jealous-and-just-whipped-by-the-inquisition-he/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6d/voltaire-173_inquisition_when-a-man-is-in-love-jealous-and-just-w_2607328.png) > [The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/the-necessity-of-saying-something-the-embarrassment-produced-by-the/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc4/voltaire-173_ability_the-necessity-of-saying-something-the-em_503329.png) > [Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/do-you-think-that-men-have-always-massacred-each-other-as-they-do/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81f/voltaire-173_backbiting_do-you-think-that-men-have-always-massac_347308.jpg) > [Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/men-who-have-seen-life-and-death-as-an-unbroken-continuum-the/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/419/voltaire-173_able_men-who-have-seen-life-and-death-as-an-u_1126299.jpg) > [So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/so-it-is-the-human-condition-that-to-wish-for-the-greatness-of-one-s/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a0/voltaire-173_citizens_so-it-is-the-human-condition-that-to-wis_1003115.jpg) > [Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/every-man-is-a-creature-of-the-age-in-which-he-lives-and-few-are-able/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/voltaire-173_able_every-man-is-a-creature-of-the-age-in-wh_2083301.png) > [All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/all-sects-are-different-because-they-come-from-men-morality-is/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/469/voltaire-173_different_all-sects-are-different-because-they-com_2228740.png) > [It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/it-must-be-confessed-that-the-inventors-of-the-mechanical-arts-have/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/011/voltaire-173_art_it-must-be-confessed-that-the-inventors_3071120.png) > [The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/the-human-brain-is-a-complex-organ-with-the-wonderful-power-of/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd7/voltaire-173_believe_the-human-brain-is-a-complex-organ-with_966763.png) > [I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/i-also-know-that-we-must-cultivate-our-garden-for-when-man-was-put-in/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a6/voltaire-173_born_i-also-know-that-we-must-cultivate-our-g_2449470.png) > [Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/men-are-in-general-so-tricky-so-envious-and-so-cruel-that-when-we/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c26/voltaire-173_cruel_men-are-in-general-so-tricky-so-envious_3199653.png) > [The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/the-man-who-says-to-me-believe-as-i-do-or-god-will-damn-you-will/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ea/voltaire-173_assassinate_the-man-who-says-to-me-believe-as-i-do-o_2462634.png) > [Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/men-generally-going-with-the-stream-seldom-judge-for-themselves-and/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/400/voltaire-173_greatness_men-generally-going-with-the-stream-seld_2409848.png) > [If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/if-we-would-destroy-the-christian-religion-we-must-first-of-all/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80c/voltaire-173_atheism_if-we-would-destroy-the-christian-religi_545877.png) > [Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/whosoever-does-not-know-how-to-recognize-the-faults-of-great-men-is/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3d/voltaire-173_doe_whosoever-does-not-know-how-to-recognize_2629702.png) > [Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/men-hate-the-individual-whom-they-call-avaricious-only-because/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d1/voltaire-173_hate_men-hate-the-individual-whom-they-call-a_2824379.png) > [When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/when-one-man-speaks-to-another-man-who-doesn-t-understand-him-and/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/voltaire-173_another-man_when-one-man-speaks-to-another-man-who-d_2671036.png) ## Other authors on Men - 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[ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ayn-rand-15943.jpg) Ayn Rand 349 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/ayn-rand/) - [Mehmet Murat Ildan 332 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-ward-beecher-41729.jpg) Henry Ward Beecher 289 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/henry-ward-beecher/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 283 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 278 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/swami-vivekananda/) ## 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/men/voltaire/#itemlist", "name": "Best Men Sayings by Voltaire", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Voltaire" }, "url": 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