[ voltaire Quotes ]
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All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
[ Equality ]
Voltaire
17 votes
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
[ Books - Reading ]
Voltaire
20 votes
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
[ Passion ]
Voltaire
15 votes
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
[ Evil ]
Voltaire
15 votes
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
[ Appreciation ]
Voltaire
16 votes
Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
[ Certainty ]
Voltaire
18 votes
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
[ Reform ]
Voltaire
16 votes
Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.
[ Exaggeration ]
Voltaire
20 votes
Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
[ Metaphysics ]
Voltaire
19 votes
God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
[ God ]
Voltaire
18 votes
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
[ God ]
Voltaire
17 votes
He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
[ Spirit and Spirituality ]
Voltaire
18 votes
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
[ History and Historians ]
Voltaire
18 votes
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
[ History and Historians ]
Voltaire
16 votes
How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
[ Nationalities and Nationalism ]
Voltaire
19 votes
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
[ Freedom of Speech ]
Voltaire
16 votes
I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.
[ Service ]
Voltaire
22 votes
I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
[ Doctors ]
Voltaire
17 votes
I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
Voltaire
15 votes
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
[ Adventure ]
Voltaire
20 votes
In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
[ Enemies ]
Voltaire
18 votes
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
[ News ]
Voltaire
19 votes
In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others.
[ Army and Navy ]
Voltaire
18 votes
Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
[ Revolutions and Revolutionaries ]
Voltaire
20 votes
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
[ Poetry and Poets ]
Voltaire
21 votes
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
[ Books - Reading ]
Voltaire
17 votes