The best Quotes by Voltaire

The best Quotes by Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 - 30 May 1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe) and historian. Known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire, he was famous for his wit, in addition to his criticism of Christianity—especially of the Roman Catholic Church—and of slavery. Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and separation of church and state.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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Patience is the art of hoping.

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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

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One promises much, to avoid giving little.

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The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

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So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

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I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

Harry Houdini

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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Baz Luhrmann

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Quagmire: "You got to help me. I'm looking for a little boy with red overalls and a yellow shirt."
French Man: "You are looking to buy or to rent?"
Quagmire: "What? No! God! How is Paris considered a classy city?"
French Man: "The buildings are beautiful, the people are trash."

Glenn Quagmire in Family Guy

Do you realize this city is laid out in circles? Like they deliberately designed it to confuse us.

Emily Cooper in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

Paris seems like a big city, but it's really just a small town.

Camille in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 4

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

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Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Children & Childhood Birthday Age

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

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Youth Men Birthday Age

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Garden Libraries

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one wo is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The one who lives in the memories of his loved ones can't be dead; dead is only who's forgotten.

Immanuel Kant

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Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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Love Soul Friendship

For when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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To write a loveletter, you have to start without knowing what you're gonna write and end without knowing what you wrote.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

I fear nothing - nothing - but the boundaries of your love.

Friedrich Schiller in Intrigue and Love

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Love declerations

Big results require big ambitions.

Ambition Motivation

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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Objectives Motivation

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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Crying & Tears Mind vs. Heart

Only love and death change all things.

Kahlil Gibran

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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