Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met… — 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
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to… — 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
