The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
VOLTAIRENo opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
More Voltaire Quotes
-
-
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VOLTAIRE -
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
VOLTAIRE -
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIRE -
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
VOLTAIRE -
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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 -
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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 -
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIRE -
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
VOLTAIRE -
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
VOLTAIRE -
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VOLTAIRE -
Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
VOLTAIRE -
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VOLTAIRE -
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
VOLTAIRE