Voltaire Quotes

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

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

My life is a struggle.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Better is the enemy of good.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.