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“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
― Voltaire

“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
― Voltaire

“You're a bitter man," said Candide.
That's because I've lived," said Martin.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
― Voltaire

“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
― Voltaire

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
― Voltaire

“It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.”
― Voltaire

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
― Voltaire

“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”
― Voltaire

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”
― Voltaire

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
― Voltaire

“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.”
― Voltaire

“Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?'
Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?”
― Voltaire, Candide

“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.”
― Voltaire

“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
― Voltaire

“I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.”
― Voltaire

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”
― Voltaire

“Injustice in the end produces independence.”
― Voltaire

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
― Voltaire

“If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace”
― Voltaire

“Minds differ still more than faces.”
― Voltaire

“Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
― Voltaire

“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”
― Voltaire

“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”
― Voltaire

“Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

“Paradise is where I am”
― Voltaire

“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”
― Voltaire, Candide