A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their on country, and for boasting of what they had seen on their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.

— Voltaire

A good imitation is the most perfect originality.

— Voltaire

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

— Voltaire

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

— Voltaire

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

— Voltaire

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

— Voltaire

All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books.

— Voltaire

All the reasoning of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

— Voltaire

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

— Voltaire

And to every man has been assigned a good and an evil angel; one assisting him and the other annoying him, from his cradle to his coffin.

— Voltaire