Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,
Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.
Mots clés wisdom politics foolishness superstition
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
VoltaireMots clés wisdom
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.
VoltaireLe mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)
VoltaireMots clés inadequacy excellence works-backwards-too
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
VoltaireTo the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaireقد أختلف معك في الراي ولكني مستعد ان ادفع حياتي ثمنا لحقك في التعبير عن رأيك .
VoltaireMots clés كاتب
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
VoltaireAfter all, it is no more surprising to me to be born twice than it is to be born once.
VoltaireIf this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
VoltaireMots clés optimism satire best-world
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