Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire

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

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
Voltaire

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Voltaire

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Voltaire

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
Voltaire

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Voltaire

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire

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

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Voltaire

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
Voltaire

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
Voltaire

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
Voltaire

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire