Quotes

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”

— Voltaire · Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme, 1738

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

— Voltaire

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

— Voltaire

“Common sense is not so common.”

— Voltaire · Philosophical Dictionary, 1764

“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire · Questions sur les miracles, 1765

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

— Voltaire · The Age of Louis XIV, 1752