The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with · Voltaire — Escritas.org

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one. It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ‘The Leningrad Notebooks’ (c .1735–50) in T. Besterman (ed.) Voltaire’s Notebook (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Platão Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Leonardo da Vinci A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. definition of a cynic

Oscar Wilde Hell is other people. Huis Clos (1944) sc. 5; see Eliot 127:27

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Voltaire

1694-11-21 — 1778-05-30 · Paris

Voltaire was a prolific French writer, historian, and philosopher, a central figure of the Enlightenment. Known for his sharp intellect, sense of humor, and advocacy for freedom of speech, he vehemently criticized religious intolerance and the tyranny of the aristocracy and clergy of his time. His vast work spans poetry, essays, plays, correspondence, and philosophical texts, exerting a profound influence on Western thought.