Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
VOLTAIREOur labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
More Voltaire Quotes
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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.
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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.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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