Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
-- Voltaire, French writer and philosopher (1694-1778)
A witty saying proves nothing.
-- Voltaire
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because
he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
- Voltaire
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
-- Voltaire
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a
pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the
sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.
-- Voltaire
If he once again pushes up his sleeves in order to compute for 3 days
and 3 nights in a row, he will spend a quarter of an hour before to
think which principles of computation shall be most appropriate.
-- Voltaire, "Diatribe du docteur Akakia"
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- Voltaire
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have
imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
-- Voltaire
What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed
of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly --
that is the first law of nature.
- Voltaire
Prejudice is the reason of fools.
-- Voltaire
“A witty saying proves nothing.”
-- Voltaire
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to
live had he waited a week.
-- Voltaire
All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the
difference.
-- Voltaire
What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed
of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that
is the first law of nature.
-- Voltaire
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to
conceal their thoughts.
-- Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
-- Voltaire
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
-- 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)
The superfluous is very necessary.
-- Voltaire
When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is
metaphysics.
-- Voltaire
“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
- Voltaire
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death,
your right to say it.
-- Voltaire, French writer and philosopher (1694-1778)
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to
live had he waited a week.
-- Voltaire
“A witty saying proves nothing.”
-- 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
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that
virginity could be a virtue.
-- Voltaire
When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is
metaphysics.
-- Voltaire
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the
disease.
-- Voltaire
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the
disease.
-- Voltaire