I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want.
VoltaireThe only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
VoltaireTags: gospel-truth
I am ignorant of how I was formed and how I was born. Through a quarter of my lifetime I was absolutely ignorant of the reasons for everything I saw and heard and felt, and was merely a parrot prompted by other parrots... When I sought to advance along that infinite course, I could neither find one single footpath or fully discover one single object, and from the upward leap I made to contemplate eternity I fell back into the abyss of my ignorance.
VoltaireThe pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.
VoltaireIt is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VoltaireTags: philosophy belief opinion argument monster
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
VoltaireWhere there is friendship, there is our natural soil.
VoltaireOpinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
VoltaireThe mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
VoltaireVerses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
VoltaireTags: poetry
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