145 Quotations by Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
- 1. A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.
- 2. A witty saying proves nothing.
- 3. All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
- 4. All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
- 5. All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
- 6. Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals co ...
- 7. Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
- 8. Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
- 9. Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- 10. As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
- 11. By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
- 12. Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
- 13. Common sense is not so common.
- 14. Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some w ...
- 15. Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
- 16. Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they kn ...
- 17. Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
- 18. Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
- 19. Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.
- 20. Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Francois-marie Arouet De Voltaire Quotes by Power Quotations
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