Voltaire Quotes

It is always more important to strive to be interesting than exact; because the spectator forgives everything except boredom.

The modern man is born either to live amidst the convulsions of restlessness, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Divorce probably dates back to the same time as marriage. However, I believe that marriage is a few weeks older.

Man rushes into error more quickly than rivers flow into the sea.

The nature makes men eloquent in great passions and great interests.

The passion to dominate is the most terrible of all diseases of the human spirit.

The falsehoods not only oppose the truth, but often contradict each other.

It is only possible to affirm in geometry.

To be good only to oneself is to be good for nothing.

Evils come flying and go away limping.

Women are like weather vanes: they only stand still when they rust.

Metaphysical discussions are like balloons filled with air; when the bladders burst, one observes how the air comes out and nothing is left.