Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
– Voltaire

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
– Voltaire

The more you know, the less sure you are.
– Voltaire

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
– Voltaire

Common sense is not so common.
– Voltaire

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
– Voltaire

History is little else than a long succession of useless cruelties.
– Voltaire

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
– Voltaire

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

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
– Voltaire

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
– Voltaire

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
– Voltaire

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
– Voltaire

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
– Voltaire

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
– Voltaire

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
– Voltaire

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
– Voltaire

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
– Voltaire

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
– Voltaire

Tears are the silent language of grief.
– Voltaire