Time Quotes by Voltaire

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

— Voltaire

This is no time to make new enemies.

— Voltaire

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

— Voltaire

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

— Voltaire

This is no time to be making new enemies.

— Voltaire

He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

— Voltaire

In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

— Voltaire

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

— Voltaire

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas…

— Voltaire

Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physicians, ninety-eight are charlatans

— Voltaire

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

— Voltaire

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period,…

— Voltaire

“It must also be noted that until the present time this malady, like religious controversy, has been wholly confined to the continent…

— Voltaire

In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is…

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary…

— Voltaire

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of…

— Voltaire

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is…

— Voltaire

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest…

— Voltaire

I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is…

— Voltaire

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is…

— Voltaire

I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off,…

— Voltaire

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life…

— Voltaire

You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell…

— Voltaire

“I've wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but I still love life. That ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most…

— Voltaire

Now is not the time for making new enemies.

— Voltaire

Man is free the moment he wants to be.

— Voltaire

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas…

— Voltaire

I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

— Voltaire

Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

— Voltaire

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

— Voltaire

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would…

— Voltaire