Voltaire Quotes

The most philosophical part of history is to make known the foolishness committed by men.

Of course coffee is a slow poison; I've been drinking it for forty years.

Let's work without reasoning, it's the only way to make life bearable.

Democracy seems only suitable for a very small country.

Chance is neither, nor can be more than an unknown cause of an unknown effect.

In the disdain of ambition, one finds one of the essential principles of happiness on earth.

It must be known that there is no country on earth where love has not turned lovers into poets.

The jealousy when furious, produces more crimes than interest and ambition.

A false science makes atheists; a true science postulates man before divinity.

If the poor start to reason, all is lost.

The newspapers are the archives of trifles.

The desire to please is to the spirit what adornment is to beauty.