Voltaire Quotes

My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do.

Voltaire

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Voltaire

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Voltaire

The Dutch fetishes who converted me tell me every Sunday that the blacks and whites are all children of one father, whom they call Adam. As for me, I do not understand anything of genealogies; but if what these preachers say is true, we are all second cousins; and you must allow that it is impossible to be worse treated by our relations than we are.

Voltaire

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Voltaire

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

Voltaire