About Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (French: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁi aʁwɛ]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, US also ; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially of the Catholic Church) and...
More quotations from Voltaire
So many men so many questions.
(Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)
I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
More quotations tagged with “thoughts”
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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