“It must also be noted that until the present time this malady, like religious controversy, has been wholly confined to the continent… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I've wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but I still love life. That ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life… — 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
