Voltaire

"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."

-Voltaire

"The best is the enemy of the good."

-Voltaire

"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."

-Voltaire

"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."

-Voltaire

"God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."

-Voltaire

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"Business is the salt of life."

-Voltaire

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"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

-Voltaire

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"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

-Voltaire

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"It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape."

-Voltaire

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"Nature has always had more force than education."

-Voltaire

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"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"

-Voltaire

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"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

-Voltaire

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"What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous."

-Voltaire

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"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

-Voltaire

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"Fear follows crime and is its punishment."

-Voltaire

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"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce."

-Voltaire

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"The superfluous, a very necessary thing."

-Voltaire

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

-Voltaire

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"We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest."

-Voltaire

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"God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."

-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

"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

-Voltaire

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

-Voltaire

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

-Voltaire

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

-Voltaire

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

-Voltaire

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

-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."

-Voltaire

"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

-Voltaire

"The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence."

-Voltaire

"To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd."

-Voltaire

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

-Voltaire

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

-Voltaire

"Better is the enemy of good."

-Voltaire

"The best is the enemy of the good."

-Voltaire

"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."

-Voltaire

"All styles are good except the tiresome kind."

-Voltaire

"In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."

-Voltaire

"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another."

-Voltaire

"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

-Voltaire

"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."

-Voltaire

"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

-Voltaire

"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."

-Voltaire

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

-Voltaire

"The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great."

-Voltaire

"He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead."

-Voltaire

"The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it."

-Voltaire

"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

-Voltaire

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"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."

-Voltaire

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"History should be written as philosophy."

-Voltaire

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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

-Voltaire

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"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."

-Voltaire

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"Common sense is not so common."

-Voltaire

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

-Voltaire

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"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

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"God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."

-Voltaire

"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."

-Voltaire

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."

-Voltaire

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

-Voltaire