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Voltaire
Age of Enlightenment, role and influence of Voltaire
Candide, Voltaire’s best-known work
French Literature, importance of Voltaire
Political and Social Thought of the Enlightenment, overview
forms and genres
friends and associates
influences on his writings
music based on his works
philosophy and politics
pictures of Voltaire
portrait sculptor
quotations
Ambition: I want to look like an American…
Architecture: The ancient Romans built their greatest…
Art: All styles are good except…
Art: The secret of the arts is to correct…
Bequests: The man who leaves money…
Bible: There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep…
Class: Once the people begin to…
Criticism: I do not think this…
Death And Dying: The human race is the only one that knows it…
Disease: The art of medicine consists…
Doctors: A physician is one who…
Doctors: Who are the greatest deceivers? The doctors?…
Elitism: The best is the enemy…
England: The English nation is the…
Epitaphs: He was a great patriot,…
Execution: In this country it is…
Extremes: Extreme justice is extreme injury.
Failure: Never having been able to succeed in the…
Food: I think it must be…
France: I am bored with France, particularly as…
France: I am not like a…
Frankness: The great consolation in life…
Freedom: I never approved either the…
Friends: The wicked can have only…
Gardens: "That is well said," replied…
God: If God did not exist,…
God: If God made us in…
Government: Governments need to have both shepherds…
Government: Governments need to have both…
Government: The English nation is the only one on earth…
Health And Healthy Living: Regimen is superior to medicine.
History: All our ancient history, as…
History: Indeed, history is nothing more…
Innocence: There are two things for…
Jean-Paul Sartre: One does not arrest Voltaire.
Judgment: Crime has its heroes, error has its…
Law: Let all the laws be clear, uniform, and precise;…
Love: Whatever you do, stamp out…
Madness: What is madness? To have…
Mathematics: There are no sects in geometry.
Men: Men use thought only to…
Nations: This agglomeration which was called…
Nature: Nature has always had more…
Novelty: If we do not find…
Old Age: Man can have only a…
Perfection: All is for the best…
Philosophy: Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire,…
Politicians: The fate of a nation has often depended upon the…
Politics: God is on the side…
Psychology: Men will always be mad…
Reason: Faith consists in believing when it is…
Respect: We owe respect to the…
Self-preservation: Men of England! You wish…
Superstition: Superstition sets the whole world…
Tragedy: Ah, the composition of a…
Truth: Love truth, but pardon error.
Virginity: It is one of the…
Voltaire: He does not inflame his…
War: It is said that God…
Work: Work banishes those three great…
Writers: He spoke of his works as trifles that were…
Writers: I have done but very little but read Voltaire…
scholars and critics
works
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