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François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), most famous under his pen name Voltaire, was a French writer, deist and philosopher. Voltaire established himself as one of the leading writers of the enlightenment.
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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice and need.
C'est un poids bien pesant qu'un nom trop tôt fameux.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
Dictionnaire philosophique portatif (1764)
He (the Chevalier de Belle-Isle) was capable of imagining all, of arranging all, and of doing everything.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.
It is sometimes said, common sense is very rare.
Dictionnaire philosophique portatif (1764)
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, this is Metaphysics.
Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm?
He who has not the spirit of his age, has all the misery of it.
It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Prejudices, friend, govern the vulgar crowd.
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