To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

Voltaire

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

Voltaire

Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

Voltaire

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.

Voltaire

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

I have had some knowledge of love myself, this sovereign of hearts, this soul of souls; yet it never cost me more than a kiss and twenty kicks on the backside. But how could this beautiful cause produce in you so hideous an effect?

Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

Voltaire

I conceive there can be no effect without a cause; everything is necessarily concatenated and arranged for the best.

Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

Voltaire

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire