1,052 Quotes by Voltaire

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

Paradise is where I am

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.