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
people luck ignorant
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.
love cute beautiful
A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.
soul four volume
Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
history empires holy
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
spiritual travel attitude
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.
gossip tease historian
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
good-day opportunity years
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
men
God created woman to tame man.
repent
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
two stronger lions
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
crush love-you abuse
Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.
book stealing
Only your friends steal your books.
taste suits candide
I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.
virtue
Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.