What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
VoltairePerfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
VoltaireTo believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
VoltairePerfect is the enemy of good.
VoltaireTag: inspirational work-ethic misattributed-to-jim-collins
Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?
VoltaireTout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles.
VoltaireAppreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
VoltaireTag: appreciation gratitude
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?
VoltaireTag: mortality
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
VoltaireYou're a bitter man," said Candide.
That's because I've lived," said Martin.
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