145 Quotations by Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
- 61. It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
- 62. It is much better to be silent than to merely increase the number of bad books.
- 63. It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
- 64. It is not known precisely where angels dwell -- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has ...
- 65. It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
- 66. It is only through timidity that states are lost.
- 67. Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
- 68. Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers. For every author, let us distinguish t ...
- 69. Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
- 70. Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the p ...
- 71. Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
- 72. Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
- 73. Man is the creature of the era he lives in; very few can raise themselves above the ideas of the tim ...
- 74. Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those wh ...
- 75. Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- 76. May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
- 77. Men argue, nature acts.
- 78. Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
- 79. Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
- 80. Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and h ...
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