Best Voltaire Quotes

This is a collection of some of the best Voltaire quotes. François-Marie Arouet lived from 1694 to 1778and was a writer, historian, and philosopher. His works include plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.

Voltaire Quotes

• “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

• “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

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

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

• “Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”

• “Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”

• “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”

• “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”

• “Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”

• “Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”

• “It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”

More Voltaire Quotes

• "The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

• “The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”

• “May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. ”

• “Our labour preserves us from three great evils - weariness, vice, and want.”

• “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”

• “Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.”

• “When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”

• “It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”

• "No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."

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

Even More Voltaire Quotes

• "Prejudices are what fools use for reason."

• “Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

• “History never repeats itself. Man always does.”

• "Common sense is not so common."

• “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”

• "I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition."

• "We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."

• “when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle.”
  

• "The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it."

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

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