Voltaire Archives - World Quotations

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Ancestry

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Courage

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.

Fashion

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Greed

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

Multiculturalism

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other’s throats, but there are thirty, and they …

The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.

Practice

The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Self-love

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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

Vice

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

It is not known precisely where angels dwell -- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Angels