Friday 21 November 2014

21st November: Voltaire

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), the French writer and philosopher was born this date in 1694. 10 Voltaire quotes:


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

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