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Voltaire, born Nov. 21, 1694, Paris, France, died May 30, 1778, Paris. Voltaire was a pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet one of the greatest of all French writers. Although only a few of his works are still read, he continues to be held in worldwide repute as a courageous crusader against tyranny, bigotry, and cruelty. His writing embodies characteristic qualities of the French mind—a critical capacity, wit, and satire. His whole work vigorously propagates an ideal of progress to which men of all nations have remained responsive. His long life spanned the last years of classicism and the eve of the revolutionary era, and during this age of transition his works and activities influenced the direction taken by European civilization.
  • Shakespeare, who was considered the English Corneille, flourished at about the time of Lope de Vega. He had a strong and fertile genius, full of naturalness and sublimity, without the slightest spark of good taste or the least knowledge of the rules. . . . After two hundred years most of the outlandish and monstrous ideas of this author have acquired the right to be considered sublime, and almost all modern authors have copied him. . . . It does not occur to people that they should not copy him, and the lack of success of their copies simply makes people think that he is inimitable.

  • The best is the enemy of the good.

  • It is not known precisely where angels dwell- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

  • In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

  • In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

  • Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

  • Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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