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I leave you the best phrases of Voltaire (1694-1778), French writer, historian and philosopher, as well as one of the main representatives of the Enlightenment. His works include Essay on Customs and the Spirit of Nations, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, English Letters, Treatise on Tolerance, among others.
You may also be interested in these phrases of famous philosophers or these about freedom.
-Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers.
-Life is a shipwreck, but do not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
-We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
-Happiness awaits us somewhere on the condition that we do not go looking for it.
-To be good only to yourself is to be good at nothing.
-The perfect is an enemy of the good.
-Don't think that money does everything or you will end up doing everything for money.
-Only he who knows how to limit his desires is rich.
-Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing it too.
-There are truths that are not for all men, or for all times.
-God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
-Every man is guilty of all good that he did not do.
-Common sense is not so common.
-The chance is a word devoid of meaning; nothing can exist without a cause.
-The man is free when he wants to be.
-No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thought.
-We cannot wish what we do not know.
-The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that the good do nothing.
-Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
-The more I read, the more I acquire, and the more sure I am that I know nothing.
-Love is the strongest of passions, because it attacks the head, the body and the heart at the same time.
-Dare to think for yourself.
-It is not enough to conquer; you have to learn to seduce.
-I don't agree with what you have to say, but I will defend your right to say it to the death.
-The art of medicine consists in entertaining the patient while nature cures the disease.
-Faith consists of believing when believing is beyond the power of reason.
-I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
-Perfection is achieved little by little; it requires the hand of time.
-Tears are the silent language of pain.
-The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
-He who is not fair is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
-The most important decision to make is to be in a good mood.
-The opinion has caused more problems in this little land than plagues or earthquakes.
-The paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
-When it comes to a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.
-Men hate people they call greedy just because they can't earn anything from them.
-Optimism is the folly of insisting that everything is fine when we are unhappy.
-We are rarely proud when we are alone.
-Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
-We owe respect to the living, but to the dead we only owe the truth.
-My life is a fight.
-Is there someone so wise as to learn from the experience of others?
-Each man is a creature of the time in which he lives and few are capable of rising above the ideas of the time.
-Be brave, proclaim everywhere: only live those who dare.
-Indolence is sweet and its consequences bitter.
-You have to distinguish between talking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
-The ear is the way to the heart.
-The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
-The more we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is its power to harm us.
-Appreciation is something wonderful: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
-It is difficult to free fools from the chains they worship.
-The true triumph of reason is that it allows us to get along with those who do not have it.
-It is not enough to see and know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
-He must be very ignorant because he answers all the questions that are asked.
-Love the truth, but forgive the mistake.
-To be successful in the world is not enough to be stupid, you must also be polite.
-In the contempt of ambition is one of the essential principles of happiness on earth.
- Appreciate those who seek the truth, but be careful with those who find it.
-It is dangerous to be right in matters in which the established authorities are wrong.
-Friendship is the union of the soul and this union is susceptible to divorce.
-An ingenious saying proves nothing.
-Fools admire everything in a reputable author.
-Sadness is a disease in which each patient must treat himself.
-It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
-Men are the same; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
-Nature has always been stronger than education.
-The greatest comfort in life is to speak your mind.
-We can't always please, but we can always try to be nice.
-We say something stupid and by repeating it we end up believing it.
-Beauty pleases the eyes; sweetness chains the soul.
-A wrongly placed word spoils the most beautiful thought.
-Love is a canvas equipped by nature and embroidered by imagination.
-The opportunity to do mischief is a hundred times a day, and to do good once a year.
-We look for happiness, but without knowing where, like drunks look for their home, knowing that they have one.
-Pleasure gives what wisdom promises.
-The comfort of the rich depends on an abundant supply of the poor.
-Let's read and dance, two diversions that will never do the world any harm.
-For the wicked, everything serves as a pretext.
-The most fearsome of the diseases of the soul is the fury of dominating.
-The pleasure that government provides must be very great, since there are so many who aspire to do so.
-The pursuit of pleasure should be the goal of every rational person.
-Most men do not lack strength, but perseverance.
-The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
-The poor man is not free, everywhere he is a servant.
-The truths of religion are never understood as well as by those who have lost the power of reason.
- Who does not have all the intelligence of his age, has all his misfortune.
-Man falls into error faster than rivers run to the sea.
-Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the crazy daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have ruled the earth too long.
-It is regrettable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of humanity.
-You have to know that there is no country on earth where love has not turned lovers into poets.
-History should be written like philosophy.
-The men will always be crazy and those who think they can cure them are the craziest of all.
-The passion to dominate is the most terrible of all the diseases of the human spirit.
-All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
-Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.
-God is a comedian who performs for an audience too scared to laugh.
-It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to imagine that virginity can be a virtue.
-This world is a war in which the one who laughs at others wins.
-It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-The peoples to whom justice is not done take it for themselves sooner or later.
-The desire to please the spirit is what adornment is to beauty.
-The men argue. Nature acts.
-Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
-The pride of the humble consists in always talking about themselves; the pride of the great in never talking about themselves.
-A collection of thoughts should be a pharmacy where you can find a remedy for all ills.
-In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give it to another.
-The idle man only occupies himself in killing time, without seeing that time is what kills us.
-Jealousy, when angry, produces more crimes than interest and ambition.
-By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
-It is always advisable to try more to be interesting than exact; because the viewer forgives everything except stupor.
-The supreme happiness of life is knowing that you are loved for yourself or, more exactly, in spite of yourself.
-The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
-I know many books that have bored their readers, but I do not know any that have done real evil.
-Science is like the earth; you can only own a little of it.
-It is not always up to us to be poor; but it is always up to us to enforce our poverty.
-It is incredible and shameful that neither preachers nor moralists raise their voices against the abuse of animals.
-The greatest reward for a thing well done is having done it.
- Sensual pleasure passes and fades, but friendship, mutual trust, delight of the heart, charm of the soul, these things are not lost and can never be destroyed.
-If you do not reflect, you think you own everything; but when you reflect, you realize that you are not a master of anything.
-What is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; atheism does not inspire bloody passion while fanaticism does; atheism opposes crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.
-There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause that we do not see.
-What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
-All the reasoning of men is not worth a feeling of women.
-It is forbidden to kill; therefore, all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and with the sound of trumpets.
-When you get up in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living.
-What can be said to a man who says that he prefers to obey God rather than men and that as a result he is sure that he will go to heaven if he cuts his throat?
-God created sex. The priests created the marriage.
-The man who says "believe like me or God will condemn you" says in fact "believe like me or I will kill you."
-A man loved by a beautiful woman always takes a step forward.
-There are two things that animals have to be envied for: they know nothing of future evils or what is said about them.
-It takes time to destroy a popular opinion.
-Persistence with patience and prayer pays off with benefits, prosperity and peace of mind.
-Inequality is not the real misfortune, it is dependency.
-Use, not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess make a man happy.
-He who thinks he is wise, dear! he is a great fool.
-I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
-May God defend me from my friends, I can defend myself from my enemies.
-The intelligent tyrants are not punished.
-Originality is nothing more than judicious imitation. The most original writers borrow from each other.
-The secret penalties are more cruel than public calamities.
-I feel like killing myself a million times, but somehow I'm still in love with life.
-Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
-Every man can educate himself. It is a shame to put your mind in the hands of those to whom you would not trust your money.
-The present opportunities should not be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.
-Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.
-To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to get out of them.
-I am very fond of the truth, but not of martyrdom.
-Our unfortunate species is made in such a way that those who go the beaten path always throw stones at those who are showing a new path.
-One day everything will be fine, it's our hope. Everything is fine today, it is our illusion.
-I hate women, since they always know where things are.
-Work saves us three evils: boredom, vice and need.
-The doubt is uncomfortable, the certainty is ridiculous.