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
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are… — 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
