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Voltaire

Read through the most famous quotes from Voltaire




What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.


— Voltaire


#anything #call #cannot #existence #feeling

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.


— Voltaire


#dead #friend #great #humanitarian #loyal

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.


— Voltaire


#sad #severe #who #wise

My life is a struggle.


— Voltaire


#life is a #my life #struggle

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.


— Voltaire


#architecture #beasts #built #fight #greatest

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.


— Voltaire


#best way #boring #leave #nothing #out

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.


— Voltaire


#doing #doing good #found #good #hundred

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.


— Voltaire


#defects #ends #makes #making #men

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.


— Voltaire


#pretext #serves #wicked

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.


— Voltaire


#knave #often #only #say #very






About Voltaire






Did you know about Voltaire?

He broke from the tradition of narrating diplomatic and military events and emphasized customs social history and achievements in the arts and sciences. Fearing an indefinite prison sentence Voltaire suggested that he be exiled to England as an alternative punishment which the French authorities accepted. Nevertheless he continued to write producing essays and historical studies.

[clarification needed] As a satirical polemicist he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance religious dogma and the French institutions of his day. Voltaire was a versatile writer producing works in almost every literary form including plays poems novels essays and historical and scientific works. swa ma.

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