Voltaire Quotes About Gardens

Quotes about: Gardens

• Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

  Voltaire

  Acceptance, Garden, Thorns

  Letter to Pierre-Joseph Luneau de Boisjermain on October 21, 1769. "Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance". Book published by Garnier frères, Paris, Volume XIV, letter #7692, p. 478, 1882.

• Let us cultivate our garden.

  Voltaire

  Garden, Improvement

  By Voltaire (2017). “Candide”, p.148, BookRix

• I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

  Voltaire

  Garden, Essentials, Should

• Learn to cultivate your own garden.

  Voltaire

  Optimistic, Garden

• We must cultivate our own garden.

  Voltaire

  Healing, Garden, Eden

  1759 Candide, ch.30.

• Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

  Voltaire

  Powerful, Garden, Atheism

• I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

  Voltaire

  Men, Garden, Eden

  "Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories".

• All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

  Voltaire

  Garden, Feet, America

• Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

  Voltaire

  Garden, Candide

  Voltaire (2015). “Candide”, p.123, Booklassic

• It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

  Voltaire

  Garden

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin