Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
Author
Autobiographer
Correspondent
Diarist
Encyclopédistes
Essayist
Historian
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Political Scientist
Paris
France
François-Marie Arouet
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Francois Marie Arouet
Dictator of Letters
Also
Wells
Mannered
Well
Manners
Enough
Stupidity
Must
Succeed
World
Humor
Stupid
Funny
More quotes by Voltaire
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.
Voltaire
All the arts are brothers each one is a light to the others.
Voltaire
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Voltaire
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
Voltaire
I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.
Voltaire
He who seeks truth should be of no country.
Voltaire
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
Voltaire
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.
Voltaire
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Voltaire
To hold a pen is to be at war.
Voltaire
Fame is a heavy burden.
Voltaire
Present opportunities are not to be neglected they rarely visit us twice.
Voltaire
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire
The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.
Voltaire
A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
Voltaire
The best is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
A long dispute means both parties are wrong.
Voltaire
Friends should be preferred to kings.
Voltaire
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire
Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.
Voltaire
