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Voltaire Quotes & Sayings

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

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
- Voltaire

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
- Voltaire

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
- Voltaire

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
- Voltaire

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
- Voltaire

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
- Voltaire

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
- Voltaire

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
- Voltaire

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire