The 123 Best Phrases of Voltaire

I leave you more than 100 quotes of Voltaire , Writer, historian and French philosopher, as well as one of the main representatives of the Enlightenment.

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Voltaire phrases

1-Judge a man by his questions, instead of by his answers.

2-Life is a shipwreck, but do not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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

4-Every man is guilty of all good that he did not do.

5-Common sense is not so common.

6-Chance is an empty word of meaning; Nothing can exist without cause.

7-Man is free at the moment he wants to be.

8-No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

9-We can not desire what we do not know.

10-The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for the good to do nothing.

11-Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

12-The more I read, the more I get, and the more sure I am that I do not know anything.

13-Dare to think for yourself.

14-We never live; We are always in the expectation of living.

15-It is not enough to conquer; You have to learn to seduce.

16"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

17-The art of medicine is to entertain the patient while nature cures the disease.

18-Faith is to believe when you believe this is beyond the power of reason.

19-Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

20-I do not know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

21-Perfection is achieved little by little; Requires the hand of time.

22-Tears are the silent language of pain.

23-The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

24-He who is not righteous is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

25-The most important decision to make is to be in a good mood.

26-Opinion has caused more problems in this small land than plagues or earthquakes.

27-Paradise was made for tender hearts; Hell, for hearts without love.

28-When it comes to money, everyone is from the same religion.

29-Happiness awaits us somewhere, provided we do not go looking for it.

30-A great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

31-Men hate the people they call greedy just because they can not gain anything from them.

32. Optimism is the folly of insisting that all is well when we are unhappy.

33-We are rarely proud when we are alone.

34-It is only rich who knows how to limit his desires

35-Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing it too.

36-Those who can make you believe absurdities, can cause you to commit atrocities.

37-To the living we owe them respect, but to the dead we owe them the truth.

38-My life is a struggle.

39. Is there anyone so wise as to learn from the experience of others?

40-It is necessary to distinguish between talking to deceive and being in silence to be reserved.

41. The ear is the way to the heart.

42-The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

44-The more we stop in our misfortunes, the greater is its power to do us harm.

45-It is safest to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and not be afraid of death.

46-Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belongs to us as well.

47-It is difficult to free fools from the chains they worship.

48-The true triumph of reason is that it allows us to get along with those who do not.

49-It is not enough to see and know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

50-Prejudices are those that the fools use for reason.

51-He must be very ignorant because he answers all the questions that are asked.

52-Love the truth, but forgive the error.

53-To be successful in the world is not enough to be stupid, you must also be educated.

54-There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times.

55-In the contempt of ambition lies one of the essential principles of happiness on earth.

56. Freedom of thought is the life of the soul.

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

58-Appreciate those who seek the truth, but beware of those who find it.

59-It is dangerous to be right in matters where the established authorities are wrong.

60-Friendship is the union of the soul and this union is susceptible of divorce.

A witty saying does not prove anything.

62-Fools admire everything in a reputed author.

63-Sadness is a disease in which every patient should treat himself.

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an ​​innocent man."

65. Men are equal; It is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

66. Nature has always had more force than education.

67-The greatest consolation in life is to say what is thought.

68-We can not always please, but we can always try to be nice.

"We say foolishness, and by repeating it we end up believing it.

70-Beauty pleases the eyes; The sweetness binds the soul.

71. A misplaced word spoils the most beautiful thought.

72-Love is a canvas equipped by nature and embroidered by the imagination.

73-The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and to do good once a year.

74-We seek happiness, but without knowing where, as drunks seek their home, knowing they have one.

75-Pleasure gives what wisdom promises.

76-The comfort of the rich depends on an abundant supply of the poor.

77-Let's read and dance-two diversions that will never do any harm to the world.

78-For the wicked, everything serves as a pretext.

The most fearsome of the diseases of the soul is the fury of domination.

80-The pleasure of governing must be very great, since there are so many who aspire to do so.

81. The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

82-Beauty pleases the eyes; The sweetness binds the soul.

83. Most men do not lack strength, but constancy.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

85. All the reasonings of men are not worth a sentiment of women.

86-The poor are not free, everywhere is a servant.

87. The truths of religion are never understood as well as by those who have lost the power of reason.

-Who does not have all the intelligence of his age, has all his misfortune.

89- Man rushes into error faster than rivers run into the sea.

90-Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the crazy daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have long dominated the land.

To be good only with oneself is to be good for nothing.

92-It is unfortunate, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of humanity.

"We must know that there is no country on earth where love has not turned lovers into poets.
94. History should be written as philosophy.

95. Men will always be mad and those who think they can cure them are the craziest of them all.

96. The passion of domination is the most terrible of all the diseases of the human spirit.

97. All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

98. Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

God is a comedian who acts for an audience too frightened to laugh.

100-Love is the strongest of passions, because it attacks the head, body and heart at the same time.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to imagine that virginity can be a virtue.

102-This world is a war in which the one who laughs at others overcomes.

103-It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

104-The people who are not being treated for justice, take it for themselves sooner or later.

105-The perfect is an enemy of the good.

106-The desire to please is to the spirit what the adornment of beauty.

107. Men argue. Nature acts.

108-Fear follows delinquency and is its punishment.

109-Do not think about money does everything, or you'll end up doing everything for money.

110-The pride of the humble consists in always speaking of themselves; The pride of the great in never talking about themselves.

111. A collection of thoughts must be a pharmacy where remedy to all ills is found.

112-In general, the art of governing consists in taking as much money as possible to one class of citizens to give it to another.

113- The idle man only engages in killing time, without seeing that time is the one who kills us.

114-Jealousy, when they are furious, produce more crimes than interest and ambition.

115-By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

116- It is always better to strive to be interesting than accurate; Because the spectator forgives everything but the torpor.

117-The supreme happiness of life is to know that you are loved by yourself or, more accurately, in spite of yourself.

"The multitude of books are making us ignorant.

"I know many books that have bored their readers, but I do not know any who have done a real evil.

120-Science is like the earth; You can only own a little of it.

It is not always up to us to be poor; But it is always up to us to make our poverty respected.

Perhaps this absurd weakness is one of our worst inclinations: why is there anything more stupid than enduring a weight that is always wanted to leave on the ground? Hating existence and at the same time clinging to it? End, caress the snake that devours us until it has eaten our heart?

"It is incredible and shameful that neither preachers nor moralists raise their voices against abuses against animals.


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