François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire föddes den 21 november1694 och dog den 30 mei 1778 - One of the greatest of all French authors. Mer info via Google eller Bing.
We may not always oblige, but we may always speak obligingly
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels
What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
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