Voltaire
10 quotes
French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher known for his wit and advocacy of civil liberties, freedom of speech, and separation of church and state.
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
“We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
“Virtue is debased by self-justification.”
“If I had had more time, this letter would have been shorter. Written by Voltaire in an over”
“Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the body.”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
“Thoughts, remarks and observations”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
“Common sense is not so common.”