Voltaire Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country. Candide

2. Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

3. He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

4. I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)

5. If we cannot find our account in one world we shall in another. It is a great pleasure to see and do new things. Candide

6. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

7. Love truth, but pardon error.

8. on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.

9. The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.

10. The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

11. The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

12. There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

13. To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.

14. We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one

15. Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools. Candide and The Maid of Orleans

16. 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.

17. It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

18. It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

19. L'homme est libre au moment qu'il veut l'être.

20. Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

21. One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. Philosophical Dictionary

22. The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

23. The perfect is the enemy of the good.

24. Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

25. Liebe ist eine Leinwand, die von der Natur zur Verfügung gestellt und von der Phantasie gestickt wird. Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.