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Voltaire

Read through the most famous quotes from Voltaire




Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.


— Voltaire


#alone #cards #deals #decide #each

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.


— Voltaire


#believe #commit #injustices #make #power

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.


— Voltaire


#others #privilege #think #too #yourselves

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.


— Voltaire


#before #destroying #laws #shade #slight

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.


— Voltaire


#excellence #make #others #our #own

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.


— Voltaire


#hell #made #paradise #tender

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.


— Voltaire


#pregnant #present #said

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.


— Voltaire


#dream #embarrasses #exists #i #me

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.


— Voltaire


#both sides #know #motto #quarrels #sides

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.


— Voltaire


#money #question #religion #same






About Voltaire






Did you know about Voltaire?

He broke from the tradition of narrating diplomatic and military events and emphasized customs social history and achievements in the arts and sciences. Fearing an indefinite prison sentence Voltaire suggested that he be exiled to England as an alternative punishment which the French authorities accepted. Nevertheless he continued to write producing essays and historical studies.

[clarification needed] As a satirical polemicist he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance religious dogma and the French institutions of his day. Voltaire was a versatile writer producing works in almost every literary form including plays poems novels essays and historical and scientific works. swa ma.

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