Quotes from Voltaire

Canada: A few acres of snow.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.

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

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

God is always on the side of the big battalions.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Regimen is superior to medicine.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.