Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue, and the happiness of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Said Candide to Cacambo: My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
