This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“For the poetry of a text is largely produced by the fact that the wild chaos of the universe is therein, at… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I already began to inspire the men with love. My breast began to take its right form, and such a breast! white,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.” — 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
