Voltaire

Proper noun

Meaning

A surname from French.

A city in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States.

A pen name of the French philosopher François-Marie Arouet.

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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. Victor Hugo

I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know - namely, that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a dog - just like a brute. That is his reward! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

One does not arrest Voltaire. Charles de Gaulle

One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech. Dennis Miller

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius. Lytton Strachey

Voltaire was not the first or last man to convert a prison into a hall of fame. A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind. Clarence Darrow

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