Voltaire Quotes

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
- Voltaire

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
- Voltaire

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

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
- Voltaire

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
- Voltaire

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
- Voltaire

God is always on the side of the big battalions.
- Voltaire

Clever tyrants are never punished.
- Voltaire

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
- Voltaire