Voltaire
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth21 November 1694
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
death forgiveness nature
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
christian men inspire
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
political politics seduction
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
nature men arguing
Men argue. Nature acts.
optimistic optimism maintaining
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
acceptance garden thorns
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.
boredom secret brevity
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
guilty
We are all guilty of the good we did not do
health doctors drug
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
depression thinking bipolar
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
christian men atheism
If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.
inspiring moving heart
A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
fate digestion prime
The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
history crime dump
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.