“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
Quote by Voltaire
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“The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.”
“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
“Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“Society therefore is an ancient as the world.”
Source: 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
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.”
“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.”
“We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.”