1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
Voltaire – [Truth]

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire – [Courtesy]

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire – [Death and Dying]

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
Voltaire – [Truth]

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Voltaire – [Poetry and Poets]

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire – [Faults]

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
Voltaire – [Manners]

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire – [Life and Living]

We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
Voltaire – [Respectability]

Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.
Voltaire – [Argument]

What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
Voltaire – [Fame]

When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire – [Metaphysics]

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire – [Money]

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.
Voltaire – [Translation]

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
Voltaire – [Work]

Work is often the father of pleasure.
Voltaire – [Pleasure]

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
Voltaire – [Writers and Writing]

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
Voltaire – [Devil]

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