Candide Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “We must cultivate our own garden.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Candide Eden Garden Garden of eden Gardener Gardening Gardening and god Healing Inspirational gardening Pulling weeds Teens
We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
“To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. — Jorge Luis Borges 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
Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“The shrieks were coming from two quite naked girls, who were pursued by a pair of apes snapping at their bottoms. [...] So he… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Everything is not as good as in El-Dorado; but everything is not so bad.” — 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 worst. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
You're a bitter man," said Candide. That's because I've lived," said Martin. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“It is man´s faith to live either on agonies of fear and turmoil or in the prostration of boredom.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of the myth… — Stephen Jay Gould 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, and run… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
