One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion — 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
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food,… — 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
There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for… — 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
