Voltaire Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• 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.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Failure

  "Le Siecle de Louis XIV (The Age of Louis XIV)". Book by Voltaire (Chapter VI), 1751.

• Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "Brutus". Play by Voltaire (Act II, Scene I), 1730.

• Common sense is not so common.

  Voltaire

  Life, Wisdom, Witty

  Dictionnaire Philosophique "Common Sense" (1765)

• Paradise is where I am

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Life, Paradise

  Voltaire (1963). “Candide”

• I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, God

  Letter to M. Damilaville, 16 May 1767

• God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

  Voltaire

  Life, Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

• Love truth, but pardon error.

  Voltaire

  Love, Life, Dream

  "Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme". Book by Voltaire, 1738.

• My life is a struggle.

  Voltaire

  Life, Struggle, Life Is

• We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

  Voltaire

  Life, Expectations

• The ear is the avenue to the heart.

  Voltaire

  Life, Heart, Ears

• It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4561, Delphi Classics

• Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

  Voltaire

  Life, Rust, Brilliant

• Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

  Voltaire

  Life, Soul, Liberty

• Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

  Voltaire

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Letter to Jean le Rond d'Alembert, November 28, 1762.

• I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

  Voltaire

  Life, Retirement, Age

  Voltaire (1949). “The portable Voltaire”

• Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Writing

  "Timeline: a history of free speech" by David Smith, Luc Torres, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2006.

• 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!

  Voltaire

  Life, Men, Stories

• This is no time to make new enemies.

  Voltaire

  Life, Death, Insanity

• Who are you, Nature?
  I live in you;
  for fifty years I have been seeking you,
  and I have not found you yet.

  Voltaire

  Life, Nature, Years

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.114, Penguin

• To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

  Voltaire

  Life, Enjoy Life, Enjoy

• There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

  Voltaire

  Life, Morality, Geometry

• The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

  Voltaire

  Life, Thinking, Consolation

• Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Work

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.227, Penguin

• You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

  Voltaire

  Life, Hands, Play

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