Quotes by Voltaire


The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
• Voltaire

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
• Voltaire

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
• Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
• Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
• Voltaire


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