Quotes by Voltaire
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
- Voltaire
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
- Voltaire
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.
- Voltaire
Dare to think for yourself.
- Voltaire
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
- Voltaire
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
- Voltaire
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
- Voltaire
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
- Voltaire
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
- Voltaire
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd. ~Voltaire
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
- Voltaire
Men use thought only to justify their wrong-doings, and words only to conceal their thoughts.
― Voltaire
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
- Voltaire
Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
― Voltaire
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
- Voltaire
All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free.
- Voltaire
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
- Voltaire
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
― Voltaire
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
- Voltaire