The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
VOLTAIREMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
More Voltaire Quotes
-
-
Love truth, but pardon error.
VOLTAIRE -
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
VOLTAIRE -
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
VOLTAIRE -
I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
VOLTAIRE -
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
VOLTAIRE -
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIRE -
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
VOLTAIRE -
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
VOLTAIRE -
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
VOLTAIRE -
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
VOLTAIRE -
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
VOLTAIRE -
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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 -
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIRE -
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
VOLTAIRE