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
ability arts devil succeed
You must have the devil in you to succeed in any of the arts
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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.
art blessing cities
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.
art exercise physicians
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
christian art brother
It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?
art secret art-is
Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.
art men invention
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.
brother art light
All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.
art feet progress
We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.
art writing forgotten
You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
art lying
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
art get-well-soon health
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
art two government
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.