145 Quotations by Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
- 121. The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
- 122. They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
- 123. Think for yourselves, and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. Man is free at the moment he ...
- 124. This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
- 125. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- 126. Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
- 127. To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
- 128. To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
- 129. To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
- 130. Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
- 131. Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
- 132. We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies -- it is the f ...
- 133. We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
- 134. We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
- 135. Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
- 136. What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
- 137. When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, ...
- 138. When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what ...
- 139. When it comes to money, everyone is of the same religion.
- 140. When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Francois-marie Arouet De Voltaire Quotes by Power Quotations
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