Voltaire
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth21 November 1694
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
life struggle life-is
My life is a struggle.
love self anorexia
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
earthquakes political politics
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
drinking food godly
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
poetry odes destination
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
world study crime
History is the study of the world's crime
country heart spots
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
love romantic valentines-day
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
faith spiritual cancer
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
character men reputation
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
inspirational life paradise
Paradise is where I am
optimistic world candide
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
depression thinking bipolar
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
art get-well-soon health
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.