“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself. — 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
“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
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
