366 ordspråk av François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire föddes den November 21st 1694 och dog den 30 May 1778 - One of the greatest of all French authors.
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 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. |
| The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks |
| The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors |
| The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. |
| The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. |
| The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. |
| The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. |
| The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. |
| The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. |
| The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us |
| The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not said |
| The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing |
| The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs. |
| The multitude of books is making us ignorant. |
| The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it. |
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