Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
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
Avenue
Avenues
Ears
Heart
Life
More quotes by Voltaire
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
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
Voltaire
It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.
Voltaire
It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.
Voltaire
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire
Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire
We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.
Voltaire
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
Voltaire
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
Voltaire
I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
Voltaire
Paradise was made for tender hearts hell, for loveless hearts.
Voltaire
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
Voltaire
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
Voltaire
Work is often the father of pleasure.
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
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
Voltaire
