Quotes by Voltaire

Nature has always had more force than education.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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.