Voltaire Quotes And Sayings

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“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
– Voltaire

“I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. ”
– Voltaire

“I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.”
– Voltaire

“I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.”
– Voltaire

“I may not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
– Voltaire

“I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.”
– Voltaire

“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered or simply to sit here and do nothing?”
– Voltaire

“I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.”
– Voltaire

“Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.”
– Voltaire

“if Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we should not have chocolate and cochineal”
– Voltaire

“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.”
– Voltaire

“If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.”
– Voltaire

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
– Voltaire

“If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.”
– Voltaire

“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
– Voltaire

“If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.”
– Voltaire

“If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.”
– 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

“If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.”
– Voltaire

“Il est démontré, disait-il, que les choses ne peuvent être autrement; car tout étant fait pour une fin, tout est nécessairement pour la meilleure fin. Remarquez bien que les nez ont été faits pour porter des lunettes; aussi avons-nous des lunettes”
– Voltaire

“Il faut cultiver notre jardin.”
– Voltaire

“In every author, let us distinguish the man from his work.”
– Voltaire

“In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.”
– Voltaire

“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”
– Voltaire

“Injustice in the end produces independence.”
– Voltaire

“Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?”
– 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

“It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.”
– Voltaire

“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
– 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

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