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Voltaire

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?


— Voltaire


#experience #learn #others #wise

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.


— Voltaire


#holy #neither #nor #roman #roman empire

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.


— Voltaire


#no problem #problem #sustained #thinking #withstand

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.


— Voltaire


#argue #argument #best #dinner #dinner table

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.


— Voltaire


#earth #earthquakes #little #more #opinion

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.


— Voltaire


#democracy #form #government #ideal #tempered

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.


— Voltaire


#benefit #government #make #nation #other

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.


— Voltaire


#enough #learn #must #seduce

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.


— Voltaire


#become #enemy #good #lamentable #mankind

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.


— Voltaire


#beauty #feel #know #must #see






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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