Voltaire Quotes

Each one kisses trembling the hand that chains us.

Happiness always waits for us somewhere, but on the condition that we don't go looking for it.

Isn't it shameful that fanatics show a lot of interest and the sensible show none?

Love the truth, but forgive the mistake.

Tolerance has never caused any war; intolerance has covered the earth with slaughter.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

It's not love that makes you blind, but self-love.

There is someone so intelligent that they learn from the experience of others.

Stupidity is an extraordinary disease, it is not the patient who suffers from it, but the others.

Hope is a Christian virtue that consists of despising all the wretched things of this world in anticipation of enjoying, in an unknown country, unknown delights that the priests promise us in exchange for our money.

To obtain the smallest fortune, it is worth more to say four words to the king's mistress than to write a hundred volumes.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.