Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
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
Fierce
Wise
Severe
More quotes by Voltaire
The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.
Voltaire
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Voltaire
It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.
Voltaire
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.
Voltaire
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
Voltaire
A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
Voltaire
It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.
Voltaire
When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.
Voltaire
Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.
Voltaire
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.
Voltaire
History is the study of the world's crime
Voltaire
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
Voltaire
History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
Voltaire
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
Voltaire
The superfluous is very necessary.
Voltaire
Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
Voltaire
I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.
Voltaire
We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.
Voltaire
