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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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.
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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.
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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.
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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