Quotes by Voltaire with pleasure

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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  • I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
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  • Work is often the father of pleasure.
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  • It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
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  • Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
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