Quotes by : Voltaire

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth,....

I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance....

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.....

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God....

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.....