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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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.
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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.
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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
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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
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Everything is for the best in this best of possible worlds.