Qui plus sait, plus se tait
Voltaireفقال كانديد للتركي: «لا بدَّ أنك تملك أرضا واسعة عظيمة؟». فأجب التركي: «ليس لدي ألا عشرين فدّانا فقط، أزرعها مع أولادي. فالعمل يبعد عنّا شرورا ثلاثة: الضجر، والشر، والفاقة».
Voltaireفقال كانديد: «أعلم أيضا أنه يجب أن نزرع حديقتنا». وقال بانغلوس: «أنت محق: لأنهُ عندما وضِع الإنسان في جنة عدن، كان ذلك ليعمل.. مما يثبت أن الإنسان لم يولد للراحة». فقال مارتن: «فلنعمل بلا تفكير: هذه هي الوسيلة الوحيدة لجعل الحياة تُحتمل».
VoltaireIl faut cultiver notre jardin.
VoltaireTags: inspirational
إن الذي يقول لك اعتقد ما أعتقده أنا وإلا لعنك الله، لا يلبث أن يقول: اعتقد ما أعتقده أنا وإلا قتلتك.
VoltaireTags: سياسة
He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in every romance, and that to dazzle the spectator the thought should be new, without being farfetched; frequently sublime, but always natural; the author should have a thorough knowledge of the human heart and make it speak properly; he should be a complete poet, without showing an affectation of it in any of the characters of his piece; he should be a perfect master of his language, speak it with all its pruity and with the utmost harmony, and yet so as not to make the sense a slave to the rhyme. Whoever, added he, neglects any one of these rules, though he may write two or three tragedies with tolerable success, will never be reckoned in the number of good authors.
VoltaireTags: writing authorship
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
VoltaireI know of only one serious thing on this earth, the growing of grapes.
VoltaireThe human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
VoltaireTags: self-delusion
And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.
VoltaireTags: living-life
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