Voltaire Quotes

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
- Voltaire

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

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
- Voltaire

The secret of being boring is to say everything.
- Voltaire

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
- Voltaire

Love truth, and pardon error.
- Voltaire

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
- Voltaire

Better is the enemy of good.
- Voltaire

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- Voltaire