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Satire10 quotes
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. — Voltaire · 1759If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? — Voltaire · 1759I 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? — Voltaire · 1759We must cultivate our garden. — Voltaire · 1759Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need. — Voltaire · 1759She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying. — Voltaire · 1759All 10 quotes →Philosophical literature2 quotes
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other. — Voltaire · 1764Common sense is not so common. — Voltaire · 1764