1,052 Quotes by Voltaire

Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.

My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue.

He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

True prayer lies not in asking for a violation of natural law but in the acceptance of natural law as the unchangeable will of God.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Dare to think for yourself.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Nous poursuivons ce qui nous fuit, nous fuyons ce qui nous poursuit. "We pursue what flees from us, flee from what pursues us.

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)