Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said. — 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
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. — 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
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put… — 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
