Voltaire Quotes And Sayings

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“Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.”
– Voltaire

“Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.”
– Voltaire

“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
– Voltaire

“Paradise is where I am”
– Voltaire

“People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.”
– Voltaire

“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”
– Voltaire

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
– Voltaire

“Qui plus sait, plus se tait”
– Voltaire

“Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.”
– 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

“So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of ones fatherland is to wish evil to ones neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.”
– Voltaire

“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.”
– Voltaire

“Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for ones country is to wish harm to ones neighbors.”
– Voltaire

“Tears are the silent language of grief”
– Voltaire

“That is a hard question, said Candide.”
– Voltaire

“That’s because I’ve lived, said Martin.”
– Voltaire

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
– Voltaire

“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
– Voltaire

“The best is the enemy of good.”
– Voltaire

“The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.”
– Voltaire

“The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.”
– Voltaire

“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
– Voltaire

“The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.”
– Voltaire

“The infinitely small have a pride infinitely great.”
– Voltaire

“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
– Voltaire

“The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.”
– Voltaire

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”
– Voltaire

“The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him”
– Voltaire

“The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
– Voltaire

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
– Voltaire

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