Voltaire Love Quotations

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

Love truth, but pardon error.

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?

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.

Change everything except your loves.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

Love truth, and pardon error.