Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), the French writer and philosopher was born this date in 1694. 10 Voltaire quotes:
- I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
- The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
- It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
- Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
- It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
- If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
- God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
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