Voltaire1694–1778- Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Deuxième Entretien
If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Épître à l’Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs (10 November 1770)
- Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville (16 May 1767)
- Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Troisième Entretien
- “Cato” (1764)
- Lettres sur l’origine des sciences et sur celle des peuples de l’Asie adressés à M. de Voltaire par M. Bailly et précédées de quelques lettres de M. de Voltaire a l’auteur (Paris, 1777), quoted in E. F. Bryant, The Quest for the Origins of Vedic …
It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
Letter to François-Louis-Henri Leriche (6 February 1770)- “La Bégueule” (Contes, 1772)
- Le Mondain (1736)
- “Sixième discours: sur la nature de l’homme”, Sept Discours en Vers sur l’Homme (1738)
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Letter to François-Joachim de Pierre, cardinal de Bernis (23 April 1764)
Often credited to Voltaire
Quotes often credited to Voltaire that were said or written by someone else.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Often credited to Voltaire
Pierre Beaumarchais1732–1799Often credited to Voltaire
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Often credited to Voltaire
