Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
Weitere Zitate von Voltaire
Zum Autor"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."
"The world embarrasses me and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker."
"All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books."
"God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."
"All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers."