3 December 2020 Voltaire Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.
3 December 2020 Voltaire I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
3 December 2020 Voltaire It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
3 December 2020 Voltaire The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
3 December 2020 Voltaire In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
3 December 2020 Voltaire All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
3 December 2020 Voltaire The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
3 December 2020 Voltaire I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
3 December 2020 Voltaire The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
3 December 2020 Voltaire It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
3 December 2020 Voltaire The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
3 December 2020 Voltaire God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
3 December 2020 Voltaire It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
