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Voltaire Quotes about Life

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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.

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

Life, Hands, Play

Common sense is not so common.

Life, Wisdom, Witty

Dictionnaire Philosophique "Common Sense" (1765)

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

Life, Soul, Liberty

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

Life, Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday

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

Funny, Life, God

Letter to M. Damilaville, 16 May 1767

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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

Love truth, but pardon error.

Love, Life, Dream

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

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

Life, Thinking, Consolation

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.

Inspirational, Life, Nature

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

Funny, Life, Writing

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

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.

Funny, Life, Failure

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

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

Life, Morality, Geometry

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

Life, Rust, Brilliant

To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

Life, Enjoy Life, Enjoy

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Life, Heart, Ears

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

Life, Expectations

Paradise is where I am

Inspirational, Life, Paradise

Voltaire (1963). “Candide”

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

Love, Life, Marriage

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

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

Life, Nature, Years

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

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

Inspirational, Life, Beauty

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

My life is a struggle.

Life, Struggle, Life Is

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

Life, Dream, Nightmare

Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

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

Funny, Life, Work

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

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

Life, Retirement, Age

Voltaire (1949). “The portable Voltaire”

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!

Life, Men, Stories

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