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Biography - Voltaire:

François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.
Born: 1694 - Died: 1778
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

Whoever you are, here is your master:
He is, was or will be.



Note 

Note



Love


Quote source: Poésies mêlées



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
Qui que tu sois, voici ton maître:
Il l'est, le fut, ou doit l'être.





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Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





We have need of morality only for want of love.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.











Quotes for: past


Quotes

Quotes about the past:


The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.





Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.





The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.





When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.











Quotes for: present


Quotes

Quotes about the present:


Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca / 





Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.





In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.











Quotes for: future


Quotes

Quotes about the future:


As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.





Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca / 





Man is the future of man.





Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.











Quotes

Voltaire also said...


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.





Love truth, but pardon error.





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.





What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.





The best is the enemy of good.





Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.












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