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
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
You're a bitter man," said Candide. That's because I've lived," said Martin. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast;… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.' — 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
He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the… — 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
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at… — 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
