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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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.
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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
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Writing is the painting of the voice.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
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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