366 ordspråk av François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire Voltaire

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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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 We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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

 We cannot wish for that we know not.

 We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

 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.

 What will the preachers say?


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