Quotes by Voltaire

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.