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
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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.
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It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.
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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness
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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.
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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind
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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
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You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
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The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.
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The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.
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The United States has subcontracted Brazil for security and Canada for economic development. But they're all reporting to Washington. The final decisions are made there,
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I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me