Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Voltaire
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
Author
Autobiographer
Correspondent
Diarist
Encyclopédistes
Essayist
Historian
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Political Scientist
Paris
France
François-Marie Arouet
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Francois Marie Arouet
Dictator of Letters
Caprice
Tyrant
Tyrants
Sovereign
Laws
Called
Law
More quotes by Voltaire
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Voltaire
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
Voltaire
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Voltaire
If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
Voltaire
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
Voltaire
War is the greatest of all crimes and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.
Voltaire
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.
Voltaire
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
Voltaire
It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.
Voltaire
Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.
Voltaire
My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.
Voltaire
Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.
Voltaire
Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.
Voltaire
All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
Voltaire
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
Voltaire
You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
Voltaire
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
Voltaire
