Quotes by : Voltaire

My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's....

I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I gained one.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of doing good once in a year.

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

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

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

He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be....

mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God....

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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