Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Quotes

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

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

It is not known precisely where angels dwell-whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire