Quotes by Voltaire

“A long dispute means both parties are wrong”

“Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.”

“The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it”

“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”

“If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero”

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

“Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.”

“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”

“I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.”

“I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.”

“Love truth, but pardon error”

“You must have the devil in you to succeed in any of the arts”

“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude”

“Think of the long view of life, not just whats going to happen today or tomorrow. Dont give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.”

“To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd”

“Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.”

“It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.”

“Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life”

“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”

“They (the British) are like their own beer; froth on top, dregs at bottom, the middle excellent”