All Voltaire Quotes
- Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. Acceptance
- Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great… All
- Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them. Flames
- The secret of being boring is to say everything. Boring
- All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. All
- Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. Absurdities
- Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. Spoken
- Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. Ancestors
- How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an… Aged
- In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. Admiral
- It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. Chains
- The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out. Best
- Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother Astrology
- The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin… Able
- Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need Boredom
- Repose is a good thing, but boredom is its brother Boredom
- The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing Crime
- Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they… Beings
- Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous. Certainty
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. Absurd
- History is fables agreed upon. Agreed
- If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him. Been
- The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not said Attacked
- History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes Crimes
- The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors Errors