Voltaire

(French writer and philosopher; born 1694; died 1778)

A witty saying proves nothing. [Select]

{Categories: Success and Failure, Wisdom and Ignorance}

All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference. [Select]

{Category: Vice and Virtue}

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. [Select]

{Categories: Art and Literature, Wisdom and Ignorance}

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. [Select]

{Category: Life and Death}

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. [Select]

{Category: Happiness and Misery}

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. [Select]

{Category: Law and Politics}

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. [Select]

{Category: Altruism and Cynicism}

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. [Select]

{Category: Law and Politics}

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. [Select]

{Category: Vice and Virtue}

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. [Select]

{Category: Love and Hate}

The superfluous is very necessary. [Select]

{Category: Vice and Virtue}

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