Voltaire Quotes About Life
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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.
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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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My life is a struggle.
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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
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Paradise is where I am
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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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The ear is the avenue to the heart.
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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.
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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.
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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.
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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!
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This is no time to make new enemies.
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