Quotes By Voltaire

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

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.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

The best is the enemy of the good.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.