Voltaire Quotes


242 quotes:

"If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new"
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Discovery Quotes
"You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Service Quotes
"Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Revolutions And Revolutionaries Quotes
"No snowflake in an avalanch ever feels responsible."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Responsibility Quotes
"Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Questions Quotes
"There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts"
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Purpose Quotes
"The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Poet Quotes
"This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]"
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Poet Quotes
"Work is often the father of pleasure."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Pleasure Quotes
"Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Pleasure Quotes
"When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Philosophers And Philosophy Quotes
"The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Philosophers And Philosophy Quotes
"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time"
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Perfection Quotes
"The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Opinions Quotes
"It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Music Quotes Poet Quotes
"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Marriage Quotes
"What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them"
Author: Voltaire Quotes Category: Madness Quotes

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