Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is not enough to conquer one must learn to seduce.
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
Seduction
Conquer
Politics
Learn
Political
Enough
Must
Seduce
Seducing
More quotes by Voltaire
What can we say with certainty?
Voltaire
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.
Voltaire
Change everything except your loves.
Voltaire
Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.
Voltaire
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
Voltaire
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.
Voltaire
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
Voltaire
Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.
Voltaire
Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.
Voltaire
The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.
Voltaire
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Voltaire
The road to the heart is the ear
Voltaire
The more you know, the less sure you are.
Voltaire
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Voltaire
The man who says to me, Believe as I do, or God will damn you, will presently say, Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you.
Voltaire
You're a bitter man, said Candide. That's because I've lived, said Martin.
Voltaire
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Voltaire
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
Voltaire
In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.
Voltaire
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Voltaire
