Voltaire Quotes

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

I have spoken of love. It is hard to go from people who kiss one another to people who eat one another.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.

Only your friends steal your books.