Quotes from Voltaire

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Love truth, but pardon error.

He who seeks truth should be of no country.

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Common sense is not so common.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

What is not in nature can never be true.

Love truth, and pardon error.

on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.

There are truths that are not for all men nor for all times.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.

Man is free the moment he wants to be.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.