Voltaire Quotes

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

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

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a Pasha or a Sultan who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

There are truths that are not for all men nor for all times.

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

My prayer to God is a very short one "Oh Lord make my enemies ridiculous!" God has granted it.

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

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante

Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

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

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.

Men argue. Nature acts.

All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books.