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Der Geist der Nachsicht müßte uns alle zu Brüdern machen; der Geist der Intoleranz aber macht die Menschen zu Bestien.
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, 10 Monate, 0 Tage oder 120.469 Tage alt.
Geboren am 21.11.1694 in Paris
Gestorben am 30.05.1778 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion
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Better is the enemy of good.
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By appreciation we make excellence in others our own property.
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Chance is a word devoid of sense, nothing can exist without a cause.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of which they know nothing.
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England has 42 religions and only two sauces.
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Everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
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Fortune! There is no fortune; all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight.
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
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God is on the side not of the heavy battalions, but of the best shots.
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Governments need both shepherds and butchers.
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Habakkuk was capable of anything.
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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He who has not the spirit of his age has all the misery of it.
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History can be well written only in a free country.
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I am not like a lady at the court of Versailles, who said: 'What a dreadful pity that the bother at the tower of Babel should have got language all mixed up; but for that, everyone would always have spoken French.'
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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I do not like heroes; they make too much noise in the world. The more radiant their glory, the more odious they are.