Happy Birthday to François-Marie Arouet (or Voltaire, to you)! The French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher would have been 319 years old, and yet his famous sayings are still ...

Voltaire quotes: Thoughts from the original French satirist. Radhika Ravi Rajan, Jan 14, 2015, 11:09 IST 14K. Add to Spiritual Diary. 1/16. 1. ... "Life is thickly sown with thorns, ...

The statistics are astonishing. During his 84-year life, Voltaire wrote to about 1,500 different people and 15,284 of his letters survive: quite a source for a biographer whose starting point was ...

The philosopher Voltaire famously said, 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.' protect with one's life)' is not Voltaire's, but is said to have been ...