“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. — 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
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at… — 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
