voltaire in English

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( 1694–1778 ) , French writer, playwright, and poet; pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet . A leading figure of the Enlightenment, he frequently came into conflict with the establishment as a result of his radical views and satirical writings. Notable works: Lettres philosophiques (1734) and Candide (1759).

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1. Design Toscano Voltaire Bombe Chest

2. Ablesse (Calvados x Voltaire) level 1.50

3. " A witty saying proves nothing. " Voltaire.

4. Voltaire was a famous French satirist.

5. 1 Voltaire was a famous French satirist.

6. Voltaire ( Francois Marie Arouet ) once talked about it.

7. Leibnitz praying is grand, Voltaire adoring is fine.

8. The ten - franc note was my favorite - prited Voltaire.

9. Voltaire: This is the best of all possible shits.

10. His lyrics are highly literate. He even quotes Voltaire.

11. French literary patron noted for her correspondence with Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Horace Walpole.

12. He even enjoyed the sharp criticism he provoked from Voltaire.

13. God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. Voltaire 

14. Access to the French sector is via the Ferney-Voltaire customs road.

15. Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great, Letter H 7434, 25 January 1778.

16. Half-brother/-sister Ceblesse and Ablesse Cornet Obolensky x Voltaire x Alcanar xx

17. Voltaire was wrong, of course, about the degree to which the multitude would live in happiness and peace.

18. He was a man of much worldly wisdom, and in some ways resembled Voltaire.

19. Madame Denis, the niece of M. de Voltaire, had been extremely good to me.

20. Even today, most educated people could probably tell you something about Voltaire and Rousseau.

21. Among them, Descartes, Leibniz, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Goethe and Kant all studied the traditional Chinese culture.

22. "Those who can make you believe Absurdities can make" - Voltaire quotes from BrainyQuote.com

23. The trouble with common sense, as Voltaire famously observed, is that it is not very common.

24. Rereading these words of Voltaire and Emerson today, I cannot but admire their wisdom and farsight.

25. French Enlightenment writer, deist and philosopher Voltaire died at the age of 84 on May 30 th.

26. “Those who can make you believe Absurdities can make you commit atrocities,” Voltaire wrote in 1764

27. I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. Voltaire 

28. Voltaire Apologiste de la religion chrétienne by Athanase René Mérault de Bizy

29. Voltaire wrote, "It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."

30. Voltaire , the famous French writer, spent a year there in 1717~17 and another 12 days in 17

31. Contrariety "‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats." — Voltaire

32. Eventually our own Benjamin Franklin, whose love for all things French is legendary, contracted Anglomania from Voltaire

33. Ferney Voltaire Hotel / Median Geneve Aeroport Hotel is on the French border, very near the Geneva airport...

34. Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Voltaire 

35. I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age. Voltaire 

36. 7 Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. Voltaire 

37. The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. Voltaire 

38. In the 18th century, Newton's theory spread to France through Voltaire and encountered the philosophy of Rene Descartes, which had been in Ascension to the Throne.

39. The first Dada performances were put on by a group of avant-garde poets, writers and performances artists at Cabaret Voltaire.

40. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 3 (of 10) Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) This done, a clean incision is made with the Bistoury …

41. While the new tax was supported by many, including Voltaire, it met immediate and fierce resistance from both the nobility and the church.

42. I hate Diderot, he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire.

43. Relics, vestments, and furnishings were destroyed, and images of saints were replaced with busts of such Benignities as Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin

44. A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10) FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE) Although homely, her suffering and timid figure breathed an Angelic kindness

45. 29 I hate Diderot, he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire.

46. Voltaire, in his Précis du Siècle de Louis XV, admiringly wrote about the battle: "The principal weapon of the Corsicans was their courage.

47. Voltaire; As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest Appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them

48. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” – Voltaire “Next to excellence is the Appreciation of it.” – William Makepeace Thackeray

49. You can gaze through the gates at the school where Voltaire honed his wit and lay a garland on Oscar Wilde's poignant grave at pere Lachaise.

50. “Anyone who can make you believe Absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” I’ve been thinking a lot lately about that famous quote, ordinarily attributed to Voltaire.