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Voltaire Quotes - Page 24

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4561, Delphi Classics

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach, Voltaire , Voltaire, Anna Knoop, L. W. De Laurence, Jean Meslier (2010). “Superstition in All Ages”, p.45, Lulu.com

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.2456, e-artnow

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

Elizabeth Cooney Leister, Voltaire (1985). “Voltaire's Candide”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.227, Penguin

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1636, e-artnow

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.

Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.390, e-artnow

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

Voltaire (2016). “Candide”, p.59, Xist Publishing

God created women only to tame men.

Voltaire (1900). “The Whole Prose Romances of François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire: The Huron; or, The pupil of nature”