All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
Weitere Zitate von Voltaire
Zum Autor"The world embarrasses me and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker."
"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."
"History should be written as philosophy."
"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."
"All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books."
"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."