A Quote by Frederick the Great

It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.

Frederick the Great

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Frederick the Great
Royalty
January 24, 1712 - August 17, 1786

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Voltaire

Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.

Bruce Barton

Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche

Victor Hugo

To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.

Frank Sinatra

One does not arrest Voltaire.

Charles de Gaulle

Voltaire was a smart cookie.

John Perry

The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.

Artur Phleps

There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

Agnes Repplier

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

Charles Baudelaire

Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.

Paul Popenoe

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

Bertrand Russell

Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy.