1,052 Quotes by Voltaire

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.