Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
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
Duty
Teach
Rights
History
Without
Constitute
Would
Appearing
Duties
Useful
More quotes by Voltaire
But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.
Voltaire
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Voltaire
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
Voltaire
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Voltaire
Virtuous men alone possess friends.
Voltaire
Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.
Voltaire
Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
Voltaire
A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
Voltaire
Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.
Voltaire
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Voltaire
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
Voltaire
What can I hope when all is right?
Voltaire
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Voltaire
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
Voltaire
History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs
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
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.
Voltaire
The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.
Voltaire
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.
Voltaire
