God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. Voltaire More Quotes by Voltaire More Quotes From Voltaire All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws Voltaire equalityrightsmen Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. Voltaire eulogymenlying We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful. Voltaire sensationswonderfulideas Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe. Voltaire ripefruittruth You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. Voltaire ambitionbeerbook We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence Voltaire differencesintelligentideas To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters. Voltaire fettersmultitudessucceed He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain. Voltaire eyestrongmath We only half live when we only half think. Voltaire halfthinking What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin. Voltaire candidepessimistlife-is The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people. Voltaire champagnewinepeople It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music. Voltaire translatemusicimpossible I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide. Voltaire piratecuttingrunning I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue. Voltaire incapablevirtuemen The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs. Voltaire intolerancetearsorder England has forty-two religions and only two sauces. Voltaire atheisttworeligion It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made. Voltaire mistresshalfsoul Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth! Voltaire biblicalearthbible All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. Voltaire philosophicalphilosophyart A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion. Voltaire heartinspiringmoving
![](https://service.weibo.com/share/share.php?url=https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/what-a-pessimist-you-are-exclaimed-candide-that-is-because-i-know-what-life-is-said-martin&appkey=&title=Voltaire quote: What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is,"...&pic=https://whatsmyquote.com/images/quote-c06cf81e1d5d071c167e0f5aca963e72.jpg&ralateUid=&language=zh_cn){kind=link}
![](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/what-a-pessimist-you-are-exclaimed-candide-that-is-because-i-know-what-life-is-said-martin&description=What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.&media=https://whatsmyquote.com/images/quote-c06cf81e1d5d071c167e0f5aca963e72.jpg){kind=link}
