D > D's Quotes

“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
― Voltaire

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
― Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
― Voltaire

“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
― Voltaire

“Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours. ”
― Voltaire

“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
― Voltaire

“No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.”
― Voltaire

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
― Voltaire

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
― Voltaire