Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply it is for your work alone to make answer.
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
Alone
Reply
Work
Attacked
Make
Editors
Never
Critics
Regard
Answer
Style
Answers
Regards
More quotes by Voltaire
Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
Voltaire
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
Voltaire
A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.
Voltaire
Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most
Voltaire
Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.
Voltaire
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
Voltaire
One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.
Voltaire
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.
Voltaire
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
Voltaire
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
Voltaire
Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.
Voltaire
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Voltaire
What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.
Voltaire
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
Voltaire
Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.
Voltaire
We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.
Voltaire
They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.
Voltaire
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
Voltaire
The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.
Voltaire
Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it
Voltaire
