Epictetus was a Greek philosopher from present-day Turkey. He was born into slavery around 55 AD and worked for a wealthy household. With permission, he learned about philosophy and came to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 quote doesn’t come from Voltaire at all, and instead was uttered by neo-Nazi Kevin Alfred Strom in a radio broadcast from 1993, according to the Associated Press.

GOP congressman tries quoting Voltaire in attack on Fauci –but quotes neo-Nazi paedophile instead. The neo-Nazi was charged with trying to force a 10-year-old into a sexual relationship in the ...

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 ...