Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire

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

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Voltaire

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire

My life is a struggle.
Voltaire

Nature has always had more force than education.
Voltaire

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Voltaire

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Voltaire

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Voltaire

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Voltaire

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Voltaire

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Voltaire

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

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Voltaire

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Voltaire

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire