Quotes from Voltaire

Injustice in the end produces independence.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination

To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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

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

A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

A company of tyrants is inaccessible to all seductions.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances; it is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

Nature has always had more force than education.

f there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.