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
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
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
“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
All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars,… — 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
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“And to every man has been assigned a good and an evil angel; one assisting him and the other annoying him, from… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you… — 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
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a… — 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
