Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Abuse
Trample
Whatever
Abuses
Different
Infamous
Thing
Translation
Love
Translations
Superstition
Superstitions
Crush
More quotes by Voltaire
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
Voltaire
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Voltaire
We must cultivate our own garden.
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
It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.
Voltaire
But for what purpose was the earth formed? asked Candide. To drive us mad, replied Martin.
Voltaire
The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.
Voltaire
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Voltaire
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire
Change everything except your loves.
Voltaire
Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
Voltaire
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire
Chance is a word void of sense nothing can exist without a cause.
Voltaire
It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.
Voltaire
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
Voltaire
Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.
Voltaire
Virtuous men alone possess friends.
Voltaire
Not all citizens can be equally strong but they can all be equally free.
Voltaire
A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.
Voltaire
my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame
Voltaire
