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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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  • The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
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  • To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
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  • Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
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  • All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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