Voltaire Quotes

Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire

Sympathy, Silent, Language

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Voltaire

Before, Support, Virtue

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

Nature, Art, While

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

Life, Death, Fear

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
Voltaire

Enough, Learn, Conquer

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

Religion, Wise, Mother

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Voltaire

Gardening, Work, Put

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Voltaire

Thinking, Problem, Withstand

A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire

Nothing, Saying, Witty

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire

Trying, Play, Anyone

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire

Nature, Law, Full

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
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Holy, Nor, Neither

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Voltaire

Today, Everything, Fine

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Voltaire

Funny, Necessary

We are rarely proud when we are alone.
Voltaire

Alone, Proud, Rarely

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
Voltaire

Pity, Illegal, Exquisite

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire

Respect, Truth, Living

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
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Happy, Nor, Abuse

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire

Understand, Himself, Speaks

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Voltaire

Power, Feeling, Thinking

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire

Free, Moment, Wishes

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire

Poetry, Words, Few

Clever tyrants are never punished.
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Clever, Tyrants, Punished

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Voltaire

Best, Hungry, Argument

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: November 21, 1694

Died: May 30, 1778

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