When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

— Voltaire

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

— Voltaire

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

— Voltaire

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

— Voltaire

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules, Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

— Voltaire

Work banishes those three great evils' boredom vice and poverty.

— Voltaire

Writing is the painting of the voice.

— Voltaire

You are very harsh.'' I have seen the world.

— Voltaire

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

— Voltaire

You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.

— Voltaire