Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Voltaire

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Voltaire

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Voltaire

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

Voltaire

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Voltaire

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

Voltaire

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

Voltaire

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Voltaire

Dare to think for yourself.

Voltaire

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Voltaire

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

Voltaire

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Voltaire

Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Voltaire

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

Voltaire

The best is the enemy of the good.

Voltaire

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

Voltaire

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Voltaire

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Voltaire

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge

Voltaire

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Voltaire

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Voltaire

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Voltaire

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Voltaire

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Voltaire

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Voltaire

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Voltaire