Voltaire - Life Quotes

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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

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Can we not seek the author of life but in the obscure labyrinth of theology?

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There ought to be moments of tranquillity in great works, as in life after the experience of passions, but not moments of disgust.

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O Truth! pure and sacred virgin, when wilt thou be worthily revered? O Goddess who instructs us, why didst thou put thy palace in a well? When will our learned writers, alike free from bitterness and from flattery, faithfully teach us life?

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Satire lies about men of letters during their life, and eulogy after their death.

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Life is long enough for him who knows how to use it. Working and thinking extend its limits.

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The post is the grand connecting link of all transactions. Those who are absent, by its means become present; it is the consolation of life.

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"Let us work without reasoning," said Martin; "it is the only way to make life endurable."

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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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