Voltaire: Citáty anglicky

Voltaire byl francouzský spisovatel a filozof. Citáty anglicky.
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“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

Voltaire

Il est défendu de tuer; tout meurtrier est puni, à moins qu’il n’ait tué en grande compagnie, et au son des trompettes.
"Rights" (1771)
Citas, Questions sur l'Encyclopédie (1770–1774)

“A people that sells its own children is more condemnable than the buyer; this commerce demonstrates our superiority; he who gives himself a master was born to have one.”

Voltaire

Un peuple qui trafique de ses enfants est encore plus condamnable que l’acheteur: ce négoce démontre notre supériorité; ce qui se donne un maître était né pour en avoir. <br class="br">Essai sur les Moeurs et l&#x27;Espit des Nations (1753), ch. CXCVII: Résumé de toute cette histoire jusqu’au temps où commence le beau siècle de Louis XIV http://www.voltaire-integral.com/Html/13/02ESS197.html#197 <br class="br">Citas

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”

Voltaire

Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande.
Letter to Louise Dorothea of Meiningen, duchess of Saxe-Gotha Madame (30 January 1762)
Citas

“The king [Frederic] has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time.”

Voltaire

Reply to General Manstein. Voltaire writes to his niece Dennis, July 24, 1752, "Voilà le roi qui m'envoie son linge à blanchir"; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Citas

“To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.”

Voltaire

Prier Dieu c'est se flatter qu'avec des paroles on changera toute la nature.
Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750)
Citas

“Paradise on earth is where I am.”

Voltaire Le Mondain

Le paradis terrestre est où je suis.
Le Mondain (1736)
Citas

“Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the body.”

Voltaire

L&#x27;amour est de toutes les passions la plus forte, parce qu&#x27;elle attaque à la fois la tête, le cœur et le corps. <br class="br"> Le Dernier Volume Des Œuvres De Voltaire: Contes - Comédie - Pensées - Poésies - Lettres http://books.google.com/books?id=ZDo6AAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA192&amp;dq=%22L%27amour+est+de+toutes+les+passions+la+plus+forte,+parce+qu%27elle+attaque+%C3%A0+la+fois+la+t%C3%AAte,+le+c%C5%93ur+et+le+corps.%22&amp;hl=de&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=BGt6VKiLDcK5OPXugcgH&amp;ved=0CFkQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&amp;q=%22L%27amour%20est%20de%20toutes%20les%20passions%20la%20plus%20forte%2C%20parce%20qu%27elle%20attaque%20%C3%A0%20la%20fois%20la%20t%C3%AAte%2C%20le%20c%C5%93ur%20et%20le%20corps.%22&amp;f=false (1862) <br class="br">Citas

“The English have only one sauce, melted butter.”

Voltaire

Remark to Adam Smith, as attributed in P. J. O'Rourke, On The Wealth of Nations (2007), p. 184
Attributed

“To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?”

Voltaire

Kevin Strom, &quot;All America Must Know the Terror That is Upon Us&quot; http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPages/ToolBarTopics/Articles/Featured_Authors/strom,_kevin/kevin_strom_works/Kevin_Strom_1991-1994/Kevin_A._Strom_19930814-ADV_All_America_Must_Know_the_Terror_That_Is_Upon_Us.html (1993) <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Varianta: &quot;To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.&quot;

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

Voltaire Dictionnaire philosophique

Laissez lire, et laissez danser; ces deux amusements ne feront jamais de mal au monde.
"Liberty of the Press," Dictionnaire philosophique (1785-1789)
Citas

“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”

Voltaire

Il est bien malaisé (puisqu’il faut enfin m’expliquer) d’ôter à des insensés des chaînes qu’ils révèrent.
Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Troisième Entretien
Citas

“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

Voltaire

Ils ne se servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et n'emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs pensées.
Dialogue xiv, Le Chapon et la Poularde (l763); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Citas

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Voltaire

Variants: <br class="br">Monsieur l’abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write. <br class="br">I wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. <br class="br">Though these words are regularly attributed to Voltaire, they were first used by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, writing under the pseudonym of Stephen G Tallentyre in The Friends of Voltaire (1906), as a summation of Voltaire&#x27;s beliefs on freedom of thought and expression. http://books.google.it/books?id=j3kGAQAAIAAJ&amp;q=%22I+disapprove+of+what+you+say,+but+I+will+defend+to+the+death+your+right+to+say+it%22+intitle:%22The+Friends+of+Voltaire%22&amp;dq=%22I+disapprove+of+what+you+say,+but+I+will+defend+to+the+death+your+right+to+say+it%22+intitle:%22The+Friends+of+Voltaire%22&amp;hl=it&amp;ei=6J3uTbDYKcLX8gOnkLGTBw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA <br class="br">Another possible source for the quote was proposed by Norbert Guterman, editor of &quot;A Book of French Quotations,&quot; who noted a letter to M. le Riche (6 February 1770) in which Voltaire is quoted as saying: &quot;Monsieur l&#x27;abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write&quot; (&quot;Monsieur l&#x27;abbé, je déteste ce que vous écrivez, mais je donnerai ma vie pour que vous puissiez continuer à écrire&quot;). This remark, however, does not appear in the letter. <br class="br">Misattributed

“All of the other people have committed crimes, the Jews are the only ones who have boasted about committing them. They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.”

Voltaire

Tous les autres peuples ont commis des crimes, les Juifs sont les seuls qui s'en soient vantés. Ils sont tous nés avec la rage du fanatisme dans le cœur, comme les Bretons et les Germains naissent avec des cheveux blonds. Je ne serais point étonné que cette nation ne fût un jour funeste au genre humain.
Lettres de Memmius a Cicéron (1771)
Citas

“The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.”

Voltaire

&quot; The Ecclesiastical Ministry http://history.hanover.edu/texts/voltaire/voleccle.html&quot; <br class="br">Citas, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)