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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

It's not inequality which is the real misfortune, it's dependence — Voltaire

History is the study of the world's crime — Voltaire

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer. — Voltaire

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul. — Voltaire

What's optimism? said Cacambo.
Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell. — Voltaire

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling — Voltaire

Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons. — Voltaire

Freedom is to depend only on the law and not on men's whims. — Voltaire

The Baron's lady weighed about three hundred and fifty pounds, and was therefore a person of great consideration.. — Voltaire

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors. — 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

In short, the alphabet was the origin of all man's knowledge, and of all his errors. — Voltaire

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

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd. — Voltaire

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare. — 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

The way to become boring is to say everything. — 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

The Baron was one of Westphalia's most potent aristocrats, since his mansion boasted both a door and windows. — Voltaire

Voltaire's Si Dieu n'existait pas , il faudrait l'inventer ("If God did not exist, he would have to be invented"). — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die. — Voltaire

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. — Voltaire

Anything too stupid to be said is sung. — Voltaire

Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health. — Voltaire

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

The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. — Voltaire

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

My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do. — Voltaire

You guys, stop misattributing white nationalist quotes to me. Like, super seriously, it's not cool, dudes. — 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

One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech. — Dennis Miller

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It's the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared. — Voltaire

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. — S.G. Tallentyre

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion — Voltaire

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

Unfortunately we did not attend Voltaire's dictum to define our terms before we began. The result was disagreement on all issues. — James Aldridge

I only read books if Voltaire's cock has been dipped in red ink and rolled over the cover. — Greg Proops

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden. — Voltaire

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible. — Voltaire

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

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

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote. — Bertrand Russell

Fairest lady," said Candide, "when a man is in love, jealous, and whipped by the Inquisition, he no longer knows what he's doing. — Voltaire

He vainly said that human will is free, — Voltaire

Voltaire was a smart cookie. — John Perry

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

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength. — Voltaire

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes. — Voltaire

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property. — Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. — Voltaire

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,
Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools. — Voltaire

If there's life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe's insane asylum. — Voltaire

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it. — Voltaire

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity — Voltaire

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

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

What's Optimism?' asked Cacambo. 'I'm afraid to say,' said Candide, 'that it's a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly. — Voltaire

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

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

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

History is the lie commonly agreed upon. — Voltaire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real. — David Lee Roth

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men. — Voltaire

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh. — Voltaire

Men argue. Nature acts. — Voltaire

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying. — Voltaire

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. — Voltaire

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry. — Voltaire

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead. — Voltaire

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

If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung. — Voltaire

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

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

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics. — Voltaire

You're a bitter man," said Candide.
That's because I've lived," said Martin. — Voltaire

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