Famous Quotes / Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
145 Quotations by Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
- 21. Fear could never make a virtue.
- 22. Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
- 23. Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
- 24. Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is subject to divorce.
- 25. God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
- 26. God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
- 27. God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.
- 28. Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
- 29. He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
- 30. He must be very ignorant, for he answers every question he is asked.
- 31. He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
- 32. He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
- 33. History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's ...
- 34. History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
- 35. History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
- 36. How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
- 37. I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pl ...
- 38. I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of ...
- 39. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- 40. I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.