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Voltaire

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.


— Voltaire


#let us #life #make #only #theorizing

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.


— Voltaire


#call #gained #hate #him #individual

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.


— Voltaire


#country #heart #our #spot #which

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.


— Voltaire


#society #therefore #world

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.


— Voltaire


#chain #either #ferocious #flee #must

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.


— Voltaire


#caprice #his #knows #laws #sovereign

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.


— Voltaire


#existence #find #god #his #i

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.


— Voltaire


#brave #close #coward #death #defying

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.


— Voltaire


#dear #gives #instrument #love is #mankind

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.


— Voltaire


#need #well #will #you






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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