Voltaire quotes

  1. Home
  2. Voltaire quotes
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire
Right
Risk
Tongue
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
Nature
Errors
First
Law
Weakness
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
Voltaire
Being
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire
Expectation
Living
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire
Men
Lies
Literary
Satire
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
Art
Nature
Disease
Medicine
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Voltaire
Art
Government
Nation
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
Voltaire
Sacrifice
Devil
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Voltaire
Architecture
Fight
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
Grief
Language
Tears
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
Religion
Mother
Daughter
Astrology
Astronomy
Daughters
Earth
Superstition
The best is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
Enemy
Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
Voltaire
Society
World
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
Voltaire
Nothing
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Voltaire
Fools
Reason