Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
Voltaire
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
Author
Autobiographer
Correspondent
Diarist
Encyclopédistes
Essayist
Historian
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Political Scientist
Paris
France
François-Marie Arouet
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Francois Marie Arouet
Dictator of Letters
Vices
Evil
Three
Candide
Great
Weariness
Work
Evils
Preserves
Vice
Labour
More quotes by Voltaire
I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.
Voltaire
The best is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!
Voltaire
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Voltaire
Let us help one another to bear our burdens.
Voltaire
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Voltaire
We should be considerate to the living to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies. (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)
Voltaire
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander the second is not to bore
Voltaire
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
Voltaire
The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'
Voltaire
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Voltaire
Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.
Voltaire
History should be written as philosophy.
Voltaire
I hate women because they always know where things are.
Voltaire
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Voltaire
Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.
Voltaire
Almost all life depends on probabilities.
Voltaire
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
Voltaire
