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
books books-and-reading great lost multitude number rest small
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude
book taken men
I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.
book beer judgement
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
book ambition beer
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
book reading littles
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little
book numbers choices
A small number of choice books are sufficient.
book men play
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
book reading literature
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
revenge book able
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
father book church
If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
book beer ignorant
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
real book bored
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
father book atheism
It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.
book stealing
Only your friends steal your books.