1,052 Quotes by Voltaire

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

L'esprit d'une nation réside toujours dans le petit nombre qui fait travailler le grand, est nourri par lui et le gouverne.

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

We must cultivate our garden.

It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls.

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.