What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Voltaire
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Voltaire
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
Voltaire
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