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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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost
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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them
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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
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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.
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say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you