Voltaire

History should be written as philosophy.

Voltaire

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

Voltaire

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

Voltaire

I am persecuted by everything in the world, even on account of beings that have no existence.

Voltaire

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Voltaire

I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

Voltaire

I envy animals for two things – their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

Voltaire

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Voltaire

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Voltaire

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.

Voltaire