More Quotes by Voltaire
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
