Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Clever tyrants are never punished. "
Voltaire
Never
Clever
Tyrants
Related Quotes:
" When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. "
Voltaire
Whom
He
Himself
" I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. "
Voltaire
Know
Born
Nothing
" Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. "
Voltaire
Earth
Little
More
" One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. "
Voltaire
Than
Will
Poetry
" Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. "
Voltaire
Wishes
He
Freedom
" Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. "
Voltaire
Knowing
Thoughts
Thinking
" The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. "
Voltaire
Doing
Day
Year
" We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. "
Voltaire
Gardening
Man
Rest
" Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. "
Voltaire
Nothing
Eating
God
" When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money. "
Voltaire
Ideas
Bad
Good
" To the wicked, everything serves as pretext. "
Voltaire
Pretext
Wicked
Everything
" A witty saying proves nothing. "
Voltaire
Proves
Nothing
Saying
" In every author let us distinguish the man from his works. "
Voltaire
Every
Us
Distinguish
" Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. "
Voltaire
Country
Which
Spot
" Common sense is not so common. "
Voltaire
Intelligence
Common Sense
Sense
" He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. "
Voltaire
Who
First
He
" We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. "
Voltaire
Tongue
Risk
Right
" History should be written as philosophy. "
Voltaire
History
Written
Philosophy
" The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. "
Voltaire
Reason
Along
Us
" Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal. "
Voltaire
Ice-Cream
Illegal
Exquisite
" Prejudices are what fools use for reason. "
Voltaire
Reason
Fools
Prejudices
" No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. "
Voltaire
No Problem
Thinking
Problem
" Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. "
Voltaire
Happy
Man
Abuse
" What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. "
Voltaire
Law
First
Humanity
" Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. "
Voltaire
Believe
Believing
Faith
" Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors. "
Voltaire
Found
Warriors
Women Are
" The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything. "
Voltaire
Bore
Everything
Secret
" What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. "
Voltaire
Age
Most
Virtue
" Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. "
Voltaire
Than
History
Indeed
" What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. "
Voltaire
Name
Heavy
Famous