No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“My dear miss," said Candide, "when one is in love, jealous, and has been whipped by the Inquisition, one becomes a stranger… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I have been in several provinces of that kingdom. In some, one half of the people are fools and madmen; in some,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I already began to inspire the men with love. My breast began to take its right form, and such a breast! white,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“That is why all romantics are anti-Voltairean, even Michelet, whose political fervor ought to have made him stand aligned with Voltaire; and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“There is a concatenation of events in this best of all possible worlds: for if you had not been kicked out of… — 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
“...he inquired into the cause and effect, as well as into the sufficing reason that had reduced Pangloss to so miserable a… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Were you ever in France, Mr. Martin?" said Candide. "Yes," said Martin, "I have been in several provinces. In some one-half of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault. — 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
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I know this love, that sovereign of hearts, that soul of our souls; yet it never cost me more than a kiss… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Beautiful maiden,” answered Candide, “when a man is in love, is jealous, and has been flogged by the Inquisition, he becomes lost… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Self love is like that instrument by which we propagate the species: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives… — 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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