Voltaire Quotes And Sayings

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“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
– Voltaire

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
– Voltaire

“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”
– Voltaire

“Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”
– Voltaire

“May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. ”
– Voltaire

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”
– Voltaire

“Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”
– Voltaire

“Men argue. Nature acts.”
– Voltaire

“Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
– Voltaire

“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
– Voltaire

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
– Voltaire

“Mieux vaut un demon quon connait quun ange quon connait pas!”
– Voltaire

“Minds differ still more than faces.”
– Voltaire

“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”
– Voltaire

“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue, and the happiness of seeing Cunegonde once more.”
– Voltaire

“my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame”
– Voltaire

“No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.”
– Voltaire

“No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.”
– Voltaire

“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.”
– Voltaire

“Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.”
– Voltaire

“One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.”
– Voltaire

“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion”
– Voltaire

“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
– Voltaire

“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”
– Voltaire

“One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.”
– Voltaire

“Only your friends steal your books.”
– Voltaire

“Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours. ”
– Voltaire

“Optimism, said Cacambo, What is that? Alas! replied Candide, It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”
– Voltaire

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
– Voltaire

“Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.”
– Voltaire

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