Quotes by Voltaire

“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”

“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”

“She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.”

“A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be n...”

“Go into the London Stock Exchange a more respectable place than many a court and you will see representatives from all nations gathered together for the utility of men. Here Jew, Mohammedan and C...”

“Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.”

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

“If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.”

“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”

“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”

“The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.”

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”

“The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.”

“The perfect is the enemy of the good.”

“Goth was sort of the melancholy cousin of punk that says: there's a lot of evil in this world, there's a lot of very mean spirited people and that makes me sad.”

“Love truth, but pardon error.”

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”

“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.”