Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Everything is not as good as in El-Dorado; but everything is not so bad.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Divert yourself, and ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed… — voltaire Copy Share Image
You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I've wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but I still love life. That ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I have been studying for forty years, which is to say forty wasted years; I teach others yet am ignorant of everything;… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life. — 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
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