Voltaire Quotes

It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.[Also known as:]God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

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

A minister is excusable for the evil he may do when the helm of the government is forced into his hands by storms of state; but when there is a calm, he is answerable for all the good he does not do.[Also known as:]Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

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

Clever tyrants are never punished.

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

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Almost everything is imitation.

A witty saying proves nothing.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity.