Voltaire Quotes About Weakness
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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?
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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.
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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?
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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.
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