Voltaire Quotations

It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

Love truth, and pardon error.