Quote of Voltaire - We must cultivate our garden....

Biography - Voltaire:

François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.
Born: 1694 - Died: 1778
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

We must cultivate our garden.

Voltaire - Candide ou l'Optimisme

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Let us cultivate our garden.

Source: Candide ou l'Optimisme

Wikisource - Voltaire - Œuvres complètes (fr)

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Translation

(French, German)

Il faut cultiver notre jardin.

Voltaire - Candide ou l'Optimisme

Wir müssen unsern Garten bestellen.

Voltaire - Candide oder der Optimismus

Francis Bacon

All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science

And how great soever a Man's Talents may be, unless they be cultivated, they are but half-talents.

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire - Candide ou l'Optimisme

A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.

Albert Einstein

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Jeremy Bentham

Quotes about culture:

Culture is what remains when one has forgotten everything we had learned.

Selma Lagerlöf /

Philosophy is the culture of the soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero /

Whatever makes for cultural development is working also against war.

Sigmund Freud /

Anything that degrades culture shortens the paths that lead to servitude.

Albert Camus /

culture

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Albert Camus

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Quotes about garden:

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ad Familiares, Letter IV to Varro /

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde /

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Victor Hugo

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

Voltaire also said...

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet /

Love truth, but pardon error.

Voltaire - Discourse in Verse on Man - on Freedom /

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.

Voltaire - Épîtres /

The best is the enemy of good.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

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