VoltaireDescartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this sp… ▶371Reflection
VoltaireLet us cultivate our garden. ✨ By Voltaire (2017). Candide, p.148, BookRix361Reading
VoltaireIt is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.372Time
VoltaireIt is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. ✨ The Age of Louis XIV. Book by Voltaire, 1751.373Reading
VoltaireWhere there is friendship, there is our natural soil. ✨ Voltaire (1820). Pièces inédites de Voltaire, imprimées d'après les manuscrits originaux, pour faire suite aux différ… ▶373Love
VoltaireFear follows crime and is its punishment.362Death
VoltaireUse, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.373Politics
VoltaireGod is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. ✨ Francois Voltaire (1977). The Portable Voltaire, p.147, Penguin374Life
VoltaireThe only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.341HumanityReflection
VoltaireHe shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.353Humanity
VoltaireThe truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.331PoliticsTruth
VoltaireIndeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. ✨ L'Ingenu ch. 10 (1767) See Gibbon 4364Thought
VoltaireTo believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.365Death
VoltaireWe never live; we are always in the expectation of living.343Life
VoltaireIce-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.321Reflection
VoltaireIn general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.376Politics
VoltaireAnd ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most… ▶332LifeTime
VoltaireOne always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.343Humanity
VoltaireA man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.355Love
VoltaireThe greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.366LifeThought
VoltaireThe man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him311Truth
VoltaireI should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.366Death
VoltaireThe ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.377Hope
VoltaireTo the wicked, everything serves as pretext. ✨ Francois Voltaire (1977). The Portable Voltaire, p.130, Penguin344Humor
VoltaireWeakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. ✨ Voltaire (2015). Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated), p.4667, Delphi Classics311Truth
VoltaireThe safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. ✨ Voltaire (1956). Candide: and other writings<… ▶377DeathLife
VoltaireWe should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth. ✨ Voltaire's 'etter to M. de Grenonville, 1719.333DeathLifeReflection
VoltaireThe husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. ✨ La Femme Qui a Raison,. Book by Voltaire, 1759.355Reading
VoltaireOur wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ✨ Francois Voltaire (1977). The Portabl… ▶311Love
VoltaireI should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in a… ▶333Time
