01c. 1736 ADCharacter is what Nature has engraven on us; can we then efface it?Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
02c. 1736 ADFanaticism is to superstition what delirium is to fever and rage to anger.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
03c. 1736 ADFortune! There is no fortune; all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
05c. 1736 ADHe is a hard man who is only just, and he a sad man who is only wise.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
06c. 1736 ADHe who is only just is stern; he who is only wise lives in gloom.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
08c. 1736 ADI very much fear that our little terraqueous globe is the lunatic asylum of the universe.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
09c. 1736 ADIf a God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent one.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
10c. 1736 ADMen are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel, that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
11c. 1736 ADOne of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
13c. 1736 ADSelf-love is a balloon inflated with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
15c. 1736 ADThe discovery of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
17c. 1736 ADThe more we have read, the more we have learned, the more we have meditated, the better conditioned we are to affirm that we know nothing.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
18c. 1736 ADThe multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great, that everything must soon be reduced to extracts.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
19c. 1736 ADThe punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
20c. 1736 ADThe secret of making one's self tiresome is not to know when to stop.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
22c. 1736 ADVery learned women are to be met with, just as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
23c. 1736 ADWhat a heavy burden is a name that has become too soon famous!Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
24c. 1736 ADWhen neither he to whom we speak nor he who speaks to us understands, that is metaphysics.Francis M. Voltaire / quote ↗
