The Laughing Lion Quotes: Quotes of Voltaire

By Sreechinth C

Voltaire is a French philosopher and writer of the Age of Enlightenment. His intelligence, wit and style made him one of France’s greatest writers and philosophers, despite the controversy he attracted. The diversity of his literary output is rivaled only by its abundance. 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. In a literary career that stretched over 60 years, he wrote many influential poems, essays and books including “Candide” and “Letters Concerning the English Nation”. Voltaire’s biggest accomplishment was his contribution towards the philosophical ideas. The book is filled with quotations on different categories like life, inspiration, spirituality, happiness, motivational, leadership and many more. This book could be a valuable collection for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: UB Tech
• Release date: May 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463334577

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THE LAUGHING LION QUOTES

THE LAUGHING LION QUOTES

~ Quotes of Voltaire ~

Composer: Sreechinth C

DEDICATION

This book, "The Laughing Lion Quotes: Quotes of Voltaire" is dedicated in the feet of Almighty.

"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."

TABLE OF Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

WORDS OF VOLTAIRE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Sincerely showing thankfulness to all those who participated and supported directly and indirectly in the release of this book.

INTRODUCTION

Voltaire, pen name of François Marie Rainout, in 1694, was one of the greatest French philosophers. He used courageous words against tyranny, discrimination and cruelty in his familiar way of satire and wit. His philosophies had a dramatic influence not only in Europe but also worldwide as his life span was from classic era to the revolutionary middle ages.

On 26 November 1694, Voltaire was born to an aristocratic family in Paris. Though his father wanted him to be a lawyer, Voltaire turned to his passion for writing. He profusely wrote poems, plays and also historical and philosophical works. His writings during the French revolution made the authorities against him and was arrested and had to exile. In his country, he is much honored as a fighter for civil rights. Returning to Paris, he bid adieu the world in 1778. Though most of his epic poems and eloquent verses had almost got impaired, some of his writings are continued to be published. His advice to his followers is to think clear with a precise and clever mind.

WORDS OF VOLTAIRE

Spiritual

My soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame.

Reading nurtures, the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

The superfluous is the most necessary.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Men who have seen life and death as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Life

My life is a struggle.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord makes my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

There is only one morality, as there is only geometry.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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