Joy Weiler

“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“...I have often said that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.'
'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.”
― Voltaire, Candide