history of this quote “I 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?” by Voltaire Voltaire
history of this quote “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” by Voltaire Voltaire
history of this quote “I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.” by Voltaire Voltaire
history of this quote “In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.” by Voltaire Voltaire
history of this quote “Do you believe that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?” by Voltaire Voltaire
history of this quote “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” by George Bernard Shaw Voltaire
history of this quote “Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts flourish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any experienced in a town when it is under siege.” by Voltaire Voltaire
history of this quote “People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.” by Voltaire Voltaire
history of this quote “Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.” by Voltaire Voltaire
