François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire föddes den November 21st1694 och dog den 30 May 1778 - One of the greatest of all French authors. Mer info via Google eller Bing.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you
Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated
Slavery is also as ancient as war, and was as human nature.
Smart tyrants retire rich
Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
Some will shine in the second rank who are lost in the first
Someone has said that the first soothsayer, the first prophet, was the first rascal who encountered a fool
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother
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