Just for the sake of amusement, ask each passenger to tell you his story, and if you find a single one who hasn’t often cursed his life, who hasn’t told himself he’s the most miserable man in the world, you can throw me overboard head first.
VoltaireTags: ingratitude
You write your name in the snow
Yet say nothing.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
VoltaireOptimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
VoltaireTags: optimism
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
VoltaireIt must also be noted that until the present time this malady, like religious controversy, has been wholly confined to the continent of Europe.
VoltaireFour thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
VoltaireEverything's fine today, that is our illusion.
VoltaireIt is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
VoltaireHistory should be written as philosophy.
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