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Ich will mir Gott nicht als Gladiator vorstellen, der sich ewig mit einem bösen Tier herumschlägt.
Informationen über Voltaire
Schriftsteller, Philosoph, gilt als einer der meistgelesenen und einflussreichsten Autoren der französischen und europäischen Aufklärung, "Das Vorhängeschloß", "Der verlorene Sohn", "Der Herzog von Foix" (Frankreich, 1694 - 1778).
Voltaire · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Voltaire wäre heute 329 Jahre, 11 Monate, 4 Tage oder 120.503 Tage alt.
Geboren am 21.11.1694 in Paris
Gestorben am 30.05.1778 in Paris
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Weitere 702 Zitate von Voltaire
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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.
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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
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Self-love is a wind-filled balloon which emits storms if it gets a little scratch.
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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation; It resembles the provision for the reproduction of mankind: It is necessary, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
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Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
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Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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The best is the enemy of the good.
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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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The English plays are like their English puddings: nobody has any taste for them but themselves.
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The first step, my son, which we make in this world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
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The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not said.
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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.