--- title: "21 Happiness Quotes By Voltaire" description: "21 Happiness quotes by Voltaire. Plus more from Voltaire and more Happiness sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ae/voltaire-173_goals_pleasure-is-the-object-duty-and-the-goal_1664905.png" --- > [Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/pleasure-is-the-object-duty-and-the-goal-of-all-rational-creatures/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ae/voltaire-173_goals_pleasure-is-the-object-duty-and-the-goal_1664905.png) > [There can be no happiness without good health](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/there-can-be-no-happiness-without-good-health/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/841/voltaire-173_good_there-can-be-no-happiness-without-good-h_82711.png) > [The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/the-most-important-decision-you-make-is-to-be-in-a-good-mood/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/voltaire-173_action_the-most-important-decision-you-make-is_2443487.png) > [“There is some pleasure in having no pleasure.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/there-is-some-pleasure-in-having-no-pleasure/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11c/voltaire-173_happiness_there-is-some-pleasure-in-having-no-plea_381185.png) > [Happiness is not the portion of man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/happiness-is-not-the-portion-of-man/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c58/voltaire-173_happiness_happiness-is-not-the-portion-of-man-1462_1462537.png) > [“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/i-have-chosen-to-be-happy-because-it-is-good-for-my-health/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efa/voltaire-173_good-health_i-have-chosen-to-be-happy-because-it-is_713862.png) > [The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/the-happiest-of-all-lives-is-a-busy-solitude/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ca/voltaire-173_busy_the-happiest-of-all-lives-is-a-busy-soli_3223011.png) > [Happiness is a good that nature sells us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/happiness-is-a-good-that-nature-sells-us/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05d/voltaire-173_good-nature_happiness-is-a-good-that-nature-sells-us_390685.png) > [“Upon what does happiness depend?” said Zadig; “I am persecuted by everything in the world, even on account of beings that have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/upon-what-does-happiness-depend-said-zadig-i-am-persecuted-by/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/899/voltaire-173_happiness_upon-what-does-happiness-depend-said-zad_870870.png) > [Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/religion-was-instituted-to-make-us-happy-in-this-life-and-in-the/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9df/voltaire-173_come_religion-was-instituted-to-make-us-happy_938442.png) > [“We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/we-are-at-the-end-of-all-our-troubles-and-at-the-beginning-of/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f8/voltaire-173_beginning_we-are-at-the-end-of-all-our-troubles-an_3168355.png) > [We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/we-all-look-for-happiness-but-without-knowing-where-to-find-it-like/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f65/voltaire-173_happiness_we-all-look-for-happiness-but-without-kn_2437386.png) > [The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/the-right-to-free-speech-is-more-important-than-the-content-of-the/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/055/voltaire-173_communication_the-right-to-free-speech-is-more-importa_1265804.png) > [“I assert nothing, I content myself with believing that more is possible than people think.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/i-assert-nothing-i-content-myself-with-believing-that-more-is/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a0/voltaire-173_assert_i-assert-nothing-i-content-myself-with-b_3142037.png) > [What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/what-is-called-happiness-is-an-abstract-idea-composed-of-various/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/552/voltaire-173_abstract_what-is-called-happiness-is-an-abstract_831951.jpg) > [If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/if-there-were-only-one-religion-in-england-there-would-be-danger-of/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02b/voltaire-173_cutting_if-there-were-only-one-religion-in-engla_2056060.png) > [“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue, and the happiness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/my-friend-you-see-how-perishable-are-the-riches-of-this-world-there-2/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90d/voltaire-173_friendship_my-friend-you-see-how-perishable-are-the_2824291.png) > [Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/men-appear-to-prefer-ruining-one-another-s-fortunes-and-cutting-each/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86c/voltaire-173_cutting_men-appear-to-prefer-ruining-one-another_1083143.png) > [“Clearly,” I said, “we should choose not to have good sense, if that good sense contributes to our misery.” Everyone agreed with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/clearly-i-said-we-should-choose-not-to-have-good-sense-if-that-good/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d81/voltaire-173_good-sense_clearly-i-said-we-should-choose-not-to-h_999079.jpg) > [Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/constant-happiness-is-the-philosopher-s-stone-of-the-soul/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11f/voltaire-173_constant_constant-happiness-is-the-philosopher-s_1297698.png) > [I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/i-have-chosen-to-be-happy-because-it-is-goo-for-my-health/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/246/voltaire-173_being-happy_i-have-chosen-to-be-happy-because-it-is_1483009.png) ## Other authors on Happiness - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dalai-lama-26000.jpg) Dalai Lama 194 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/dalai-lama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 192 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steve-maraboli-87325.jpg) Steve Maraboli 186 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/steve-maraboli/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-ritu-ghatourey-5.jpg) Ritu Ghatourey 169 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/ritu-ghatourey/) - [Dada Bhagwan 131 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/dada-bhagwan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-anurag-prakash-ray-38.jpg) Anurag Prakash Ray 126 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/anurag-prakash-ray/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 118 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/paulo-coelho/) - [Lailah Gifty Akita 116 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/lailah-gifty-akita/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-nishan-panwar-14.jpg) Nishan Panwar 113 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/nishan-panwar/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bertrand-russell-17477.jpg) Bertrand Russell 104 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/bertrand-russell/) - [Samuel Johnson 102 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/samuel-johnson/) ## More by Voltaire > [In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/in-every-province-the-chief-occupations-in-order-of-importance-are/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/fanaticism-to-which-men-are-so-much-inclined-has-always-served-not/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [History is the study of the world's crime](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/history-is-the-study-of-the-world-s-crime/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/we-re-neither-pure-nor-wise-nor-good-we-do-the-best-we-know/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/it-is-with-books-as-with-men-a-very-small-number-play-a-great-part/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/meslier-was-the-most-singular-phenomenon-ever-seen-among-all-the/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/every-sensible-man-every-honorable-man-must-hold-the-christian-sect/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/being-unable-to-make-people-more-reasonable-i-preferred-to-be-happy/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/when-his-highness-sends-a-ship-to-egypt-does-he-trouble-his-head/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/madness-is-to-think-of-too-many-things-in-succession-too-fast-or-of/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/god-gave-us-the-gift-of-life-it-is-up-to-us-to-give-ourselves-the/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/it-is-not-inequality-which-is-the-real-misfortune-it-is-dependence/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/providence-has-given-us-hope-and-sleep-as-a-compensation-for-the-many/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/men-use-thought-only-to-justify-their-wrong-doings-and-employ-speech/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) > [Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/work-spares-us-from-three-evils-boredom-vice-and-need/) [Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/voltaire/#itemlist", "name": "21 Happiness Quotes By Voltaire", "numberOfItems": 21, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Voltaire" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/pleasure-is-the-object-duty-and-the-goal-of-all-rational-creatures/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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