What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Upon what does happiness depend?” said Zadig; “I am persecuted by everything in the world, even on account of beings that have… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Clearly,” I said, “we should choose not to have good sense, if that good sense contributes to our misery.” Everyone agreed with… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that… — 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
“I assert nothing, I content myself with believing that more is possible than people think.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness” — 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
