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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom (Voltaire Quotes)
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one’s fatherland is to wish evil to one’s neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer (Voltaire Quotes)
One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence (Voltaire Quotes)
Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money (Voltaire Quotes)
The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists (Voltaire Quotes)
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste (Voltaire Quotes)
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection (Voltaire Quotes)
We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one (Voltaire Quotes)
It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love (Voltaire Quotes)
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice (Voltaire Quotes)
For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground? (Voltaire Quotes)
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize (Voltaire Quotes)
It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don’t have any (Voltaire Quotes)
When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon (Voltaire Quotes)
All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles (Voltaire Quotes)
A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance (Voltaire Quotes)
Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages (Voltaire Quotes)
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work (Voltaire Quotes)
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it (Voltaire Quotes)
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills (Voltaire Quotes)
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away? (Voltaire Quotes)
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother’s womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him (Voltaire Quotes)
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts? (Voltaire Quotes)
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets (Voltaire Quotes)
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it (Voltaire Quotes)
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare (Voltaire Quotes)
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon (Voltaire Quotes)
History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up (Voltaire Quotes)
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them (Voltaire Quotes)
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times (Voltaire Quotes)