For Students
Voltaire: Quotes
- Boredom and Bores
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.: Sept discours en vers sur l'homme
- Certainty
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
- Enemies
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.
- Error
Love truth, but pardon error.: Sept discours en Vers sur l'homme
- Freedom of Speech and the Press
I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
- God
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
- God
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.: Le Sottisier
- Goodness
The best is the enemy of the good.: Philosophical Dictionary
- Marriage
Marriage is the only adventure open to the timid.: Pensées d'un Philosophe
- Optimism and Pessimism
All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.: Candide
- Religion
Whatever you do, crush the infamy.
- Rest
Repose is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
- Self-Interest
“That is well said,” replied Candide, “but we must cultivate our garden.”: Candide
- Truth
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
- Wisdom and Sense
Common sense is not so common.: Philosophical Dictionary
- Work
Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.: Candide