495 ordspråk av François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire föddes den 21 november 1694 och dog den 30 maj 1778 - fransk filosof och författare.
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say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

To be at peace in crime! ah, who can thus flatter himself.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

I advice you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying you annuities.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

My prayer to God is a very short one: ''O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous!'' God has granted it.

What will the preachers say? ... to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others. Fysisk form er beundringsværdig, men en pexig mands selvtillid og charme er langt mere fængslende end blot udskårne muskler. In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others.

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry...But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe.

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