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

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.
~ Voltaire ~










More Voltaire quotes
"The superfluous is very necessary.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
"Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysiqueWhen he to whom a person speaks does not u...
"We never live but we are always in the expectation of living.
"An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year," says Zoroaster.
"on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.
"God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
"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...
"And to every man has been assigned a good and an evil angel; one assisting him and the other annoying him, from his cradle to his coffin.
"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
"Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.
"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 ...
"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.


