
“I know because I read… Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
La vie est hérissée de ces épines, et je n'y sais d'autre remède que de cultiver son jardin.
Letter to Pierre-Joseph Luneau de Boisjermain (21 October 1769), from Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance [Garnier frères, Paris, 1882], vol. XIV, letter # 7692 (p. 478)
Citas
La vie est hérissée de ces épines, et je n'y sais d'autre remède que de cultiver son jardin.
“I know because I read… Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit - The Lives and Counsels of Contemporary Elders of Greece, p. 170
Letter to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (29 December 1802)
“Let us cultivate our garden.”
Citas, Candide (1759)
Journal entry on the day Pope Pius XII died (9 October 1958); published in Journal of a Soul (1965)
Context: One of my favorite phrases that brings me great comfort: We are not on earth as museum keepers, but to cultivate a flourishing garden of life and to prepare a glorious future. The Pope is dead. Long live the Pope!