Voltaire Quotes, Art Quotes, Perfection Quotes

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Art Quotes , Perfection Quotes

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Birthday Quotes , Resurrection Quotes

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Christian Quotes , Years Quotes

The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Men Quotes

He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Giving Quotes , Sage Quotes

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Greatness Quotes

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Care Quotes

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Good Day Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Book Quotes , Ambition Quotes

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Hypocrisy Quotes , Doe Quotes

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Self Quotes

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Courage Quotes , Truth Quotes

Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Best Love Quotes , Love Is Quotes

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Wish Quotes

All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Garden Quotes , Feet Quotes

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , People Quotes , History Quotes

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Sight Quotes , Earthquakes Quotes

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Hands Quotes , Idols Quotes

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Men Quotes , Perfection Quotes

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Heart Quotes , Soul Quotes