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Voltaire quotes

French Writer November 21, 1694 – May 30, 1778

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure. 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?' That is a hard question,' said Candide. Voltaire
Voltaire quote: "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O..."
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. Voltaire
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege. Voltaire
Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupt? effects, so as to defraud their creditors. Voltaire
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him. Voltaire
Voltaire quote: "The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out. Voltaire
Voltaire quote: "Nature has always had more force than education."
Nature has always had more force than education. Voltaire
Voltaire quote: "It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all..."
It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all in the language one knows the least Voltaire
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. Voltaire
Voltaire quote: "To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can..."
To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature. Voltaire
Voltaire quote: "The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a..."
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. Voltaire
mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another. Voltaire
Voltaire quote: "All is for the best in the best of possible worlds."
All is for the best in the best of possible worlds. Voltaire
Voltaire quote: "If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?"
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? Voltaire

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