It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
VOLTAIREIt is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
More Voltaire Quotes
-
-
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
VOLTAIRE -
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VOLTAIRE -
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
VOLTAIRE -
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
VOLTAIRE -
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
VOLTAIRE -
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
VOLTAIRE -
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VOLTAIRE -
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
VOLTAIRE -
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
VOLTAIRE -
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIRE -
Dare to think for yourself.
VOLTAIRE -
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
VOLTAIRE -
Injustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIRE -
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VOLTAIRE -
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
VOLTAIRE






