Voltaire Quotes

We ought to be tolerant of each other, because we are all weak, inconsistent, and liable to fickleness and mistakes.

Il vaut mieux se hasarder à sauver un coupable que de condamner un innocent / It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to convict an innocent

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

Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies.

The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing.

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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

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

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.