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Whatever else he was during his life, he was never dull, and the world forgives almost anything but stupidity.
Voltaire (1916)
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
Voltaire (1916)
Valiantly he fought on every intellectual battlefield.
Voltaire (1916)
No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
Voltaire (1916)
The usual is always mediocre. When nature takes it into her head to make a man, she fits him with her own equipment and educates him in her own school.
Voltaire (1916)
Voltaire was not the first or last man to convert a prison into a hall of fame. A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.
Voltaire (1916)
It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater possibilities and grander heights.
Voltaire (1916)
There are two things that kill a genius — a fatal disease and contentment. When a man is contented he goes to sleep. Voltaire had no chance to be contented, and so he wrote eternally and unceasingly, more than any other man in the history of the world.
Voltaire (1916)
Pensions are the favors of the powerful, and dangerous to any great intellect. It is only here and there down throughout the ages that a Voltaire is born who does not fall a victim to their blandishments.
Voltaire (1916)