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I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire. — Charles Baudelaire

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. — Voltaire

Consequently they who assert that all is well have said a foolish thing, they should have said all is for the best. — Voltaire

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire

God created women only to tame men. — Voltaire

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages. — Voltaire

The best way to be boring is to include everything. — Voltaire

I am infinitely more touched by your extreme generosity than with the inhumanity of that gentleman — Voltaire

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. — Voltaire

There can be no effect without a cause," modestly answered Candide; "the whole is necessarily concatenated and arranged for the best. — Voltaire

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd. — Voltaire

From May 1717 to April 1718, Voltaire sat comfortably in the infamous prison insulting the Regent and reading Homer. — Jessica Powell

The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms. — Voltaire

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace — Voltaire

A historian has many duties ... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore — Voltaire

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest. — Voltaire

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable. — Voltaire

The best is the enemy of the good. — Voltaire

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature. — Voltaire

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others. — Voltaire

God should worshiped, not avenged. It is absurd for insects like ourselves to think we can avenge God. — Voltaire

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers. — Voltaire

History is the lie commonly agreed upon. — Voltaire

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village. — Voltaire

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them. — Voltaire

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity. — Voltaire

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

He vainly said that human will is free, — Voltaire

Voltaire was a smart cookie. — John Perry

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best. — Voltaire

All is for the best in the best of possible worlds. — Voltaire

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up. — Voltaire

If God is always on the side of the big battalions as Voltaire says, then, let us not waste our time with little detachments! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave. — Mason Cooley

Pangloss most cruelly deceived me when he said that everything in the world is for the best. — Voltaire

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. — Voltaire

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? — Voltaire

The best is the enemy of good. — Voltaire

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests. — Voltaire

Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders. — Voltaire

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best. — Voltaire

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. — Voltaire

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. — Voltaire

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration. — Voltaire

Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one. — Voltaire

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. — Voltaire

One does not arrest Voltaire. — Charles De Gaulle

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. — Voltaire

Men argue. Nature acts. — Voltaire

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. — Voltaire

I have wanted to kill myself a million times,
but somehow I am still in love with life. — Voltaire

Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure. — Voltaire

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. — Voltaire

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below. — Voltaire

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

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little — Voltaire

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. — Voltaire

This is no time to be making new enemies. — Voltaire

It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all in the language one knows the least — Voltaire

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live. — Voltaire

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive. — Voltaire

He's over your head! He was, but naturally I'd flung myself into the Sea of Voltaire anyway and emerged with nothing more than several aphorisms. — Sue Monk Kidd