Treatise on Toleration
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“Pleasure is the object, duty, and the goal of all rational creatures.”
“Those who can make people believe absurdities, can make people commit atrocities.”
Source: Poem Upon the Lisbon Disaster
Source: Candide
Source: Treatise on Toleration and Other Essays
“I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
Source: The Works: Voltaire
Source: Candide
Source: Candide
Source: Candide
“L'optimisme est la rage de soutenir que tout est bien quand on est mal.”
Source: Candide
“Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.”
Source: Candide
“It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.”
Source: A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
Source: Candide
Source: Candide
“Natural law teaches us to kill our neighbour, which how men behave the world over.”
Source: Candide
“L'homme est né pour vivre dans les convulsions de l'inquiétude ou dans la léthargie de l'ennui.”
Source: Candide
Source: Philosophical Dictionary
“Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules, Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.”
Source: Candide and The Maid of Orleans
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”
Source: Memnon, or Human Wisdom
“But to what end was the world created, then?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”
Source: Candide
“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
Source: Zadig et autres contes
“on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.”
“The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.”
“Private misery is yet more cruel than public calamities.”
Source: Candide
“It is a fact that there is no country in the world where love does not turn lovers into poets.”
Source: L'Ingénu
Source: Cândido
“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
“Qui plume a, guerre a. Ce monde est un vaste temple dédié à la discorde.”
“Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.”
Source: Candide
“Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
Source: Dialogues satiriques philosophiques: suivis du sermon des cinquante
“Come! Your presence will give me my life back, or it will make me die of joy.”
Source: Candide
Source: Le Fanatisme Ou Mahomet Le Prophète: Tragédie
Source: Treatise on Toleration and Other Essays