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1 " She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying. "
― Voltaire , Candide
2 " Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable. "
3 " Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. "
― Voltaire
4 " If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. "
5 " Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. "
6 " The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. "
7 " It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. "
8 " The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy. "
9 " Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it. "
10 " There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. "
11 " on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité. "
12 " God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh. "
13 " God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. "
14 " It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions. "
15 " If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it. "
16 " Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men. "
― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary
17 " The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. "
18 " He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. "
19 " Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools. "
― Voltaire , Candide and The Maid of Orleans
20 " 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. "
