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
love wedding heart
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
heart serpent caress
To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
heart pathways music-is
Music is the pathway to the heart.
heart wicked finest
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.
inspiration heart ears
The road to the heart is the ear
children heart religion
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
life heart ears
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
country heart spots
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
inspiring moving heart
A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
heart paradise hell
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
stupid heart love-life
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?
beautiful heart kissing
Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?
heart soul sensual
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
heart mouths
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.