Voltaire Should Quotations

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

Friends should be preferred to kings.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

History should be written as philosophy.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe....

One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

He who seeks truth should be of no country.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.