Quotes by : Voltaire

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at....

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon....

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ideas,....

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas....

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

Discord is the great ill of mankind and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.