1,052 Quotes by Voltaire

I do not understand Greek very well," said the giant."Neither do I," said the philosophical mite."Why then," the Sirian retorted, "are you citing some man named Aristotle in the Greek?""Because," replied the savant, "one should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Young women learn to feel more easily than men learn to think.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Love truth, but pardon error.