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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 He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery. |
| He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. |
| He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad. |
| He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool |
| His face bespoke his soul |
| History is fables agreed upon. |
| History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes |
| History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead |
| History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. |
| How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think! |
| How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. |
| I advice you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying you annuities. |
| I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. |
| 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. |
| I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. |
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