Nofuture.org.uk » Voltaire http://www.nofuture.org.uk For all the things in life which make me glad I'm not dead yet. Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:35:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 True of the Majority of Mankind http://www.nofuture.org.uk/2010/02/15/true-of-the-majority-of-mankind/ http://www.nofuture.org.uk/2010/02/15/true-of-the-majority-of-mankind/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:56:49 +0000 Dave http://www.nofuture.org.uk/wordpress/?p=330

We can become accustomed to anything. Well fed, well looked after, but always closely watched, Candide was not utterly disgusted with his condition. Good cheer, and the various amusements offered by Ismael’s slaves, gave him respite from his sorrows. He was unhappy only when he thought: and that is true of the majority of mankind.

- Candide (Voltaire )

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I have seen scarcely a city that did not wish the ruin of its neighbouring city; nor a family that did not wish to exterminate some other family. Everywhere the weak hate the powerful, before whom they crawl, and the powerful treat the weak like sheep, selling their wool and their carcases.

- Martin the Manichaean, Candide (Voltaire)

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… A hundred times I wished to kill myself, but my love of life persisted. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of the most fatal of our faults. For what could be more stupid than to go on carrying a burden that we always long to lay down? To loathe, and yet cling to, existence? In short, to cherish the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten our hearts?

- The Old Woman’s Story, Candide (Voltaire)

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Beautiful mistress, when a man is in love, is jealous, and has been flogged by the Inquisition, he does the most surprising things.

- Candide (Voltaire)

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