
Voltaire
Born | François Marie Arouet November 21, 1694 Paris, France |
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Died | May 30, 1778 Paris, France |
The repository contains 16 quotes from Voltaire.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
The road to the heart is the ear.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
The way to become boring is to say everything.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
History is fables agreed upon.
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
A witty saying means nothing.