VOLTAIRE QUOTES FRIENDSHIP

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

“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”

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

“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”

“Injustice in the end produces independence.”

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

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

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore, all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

“Common sense is not so common.”

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”

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

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

“The more I see of the different peoples of the world, the more I am convinced that there is not, in fact, so much difference as one might imagine.”

“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies.” MAKE LOVE QUOTE

“The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.”

“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

“Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”

“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”

“Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”

“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”

“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”

“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.”

“Common sense is not so common.”

“Animals have these advantages over man: they have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”

“I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.”

“Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”

“A witty saying proves nothing.”

“The perfect is the enemy of the good.”