Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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
Liberty
Thought
Soul
Life
More quotes by Voltaire
Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.
Voltaire
A good imitation is the most perfect originality
Voltaire
He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. We do not pray to him at all, said the reverend sage. We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.
Voltaire
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
Voltaire
Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.
Voltaire
To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.
Voltaire
The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.
Voltaire
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.
Voltaire
Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.
Voltaire
I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.
Voltaire
Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!
Voltaire
Man is free the moment he wants to be.
Voltaire
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
Voltaire
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
Voltaire
If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.
Voltaire
Happiness is a good that nature sells us.
Voltaire
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
Voltaire
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
Voltaire
Now is not the time for making new enemies.
Voltaire
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
Voltaire
