Quotes
Quotes
Lines worth keeping — a quiet shelf to return to.
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“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion”
— Voltaire
“May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.”
— Voltaire
“I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.”
— Voltaire
“Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
— Voltaire
“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.”
— Voltaire
“Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.”
— Voltaire
“What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...”
— Voltaire
“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all”
— Voltaire
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
— Voltaire
“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
— Voltaire
“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
— Voltaire
“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it”
— Voltaire
“The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe”
— Voltaire
“Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”
— Voltaire
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
— Voltaire
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
— Voltaire
“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
— Voltaire
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
— Voltaire
“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh”
— Voltaire
“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way”
— Voltaire
“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere”
— Voltaire
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing”
— Voltaire
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
— Voltaire
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets”
— Voltaire
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats”
— Voltaire
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world”
— Voltaire