François Marie Arouet, better known by the name of Voltaire, was born at Chatenay, on the 20th of February, 1694.
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. Go to Quote / Comment
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. Go to Quote / Comment
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Go to Quote / Comment
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Go to Quote / Comment
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures. Go to Quote / Comment