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Voltaire

Voltaire

French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet)

Lived from: 1694 - 1778

Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 21 november 1694 Died: 30 may 1778

  • If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
  • In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
  • When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
  • Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
  • Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
  • I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
  • This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
  • It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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  • History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
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  • History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
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  • Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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  • The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
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