To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIREIt is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
More Voltaire Quotes
-
-
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
VOLTAIRE -
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
VOLTAIRE -
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
VOLTAIRE -
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
VOLTAIRE -
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
VOLTAIRE -
Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
VOLTAIRE -
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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 -
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
VOLTAIRE -
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
VOLTAIRE -
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
VOLTAIRE -
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
VOLTAIRE -
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
VOLTAIRE -
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIRE -
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIRE