I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
VOLTAIREDiscord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
More Voltaire Quotes
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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