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Voltaire (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), real name François-Marie Arouet, was a French Enlightenment thinker, writer and philosopher.
Voltaire was a titan of the French bourgeois Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, known as "the king of French thought", "the best poet in France", and "the conscience of Europe". Advocated an enlightened monarchy, emphasizing freedom and equality. His representative works include "Philosophical Correspondence", "The Age of Louis XIV", "The Honest Man" and so on. He died on 30 May 1778 at the age of 83.
1, the beauty of the appearance can only please the human eye, but the inner beauty can infect the soul.
2) Man's instinct is to chase what flies away from him, but to avoid what chases him.
3) The longest is time, because it is never endless, and the shortest is no more than time, because all our plans are too late to complete.
4, a person often has to die twice: no longer love, no longer loved.
5) The more you read without thinking, the more you will feel that you know a lot; and when you read and think more, the more clearly you will see that you know very little.
6) The secret to being a boring person is to tell others everything.
7, humans are usually like dogs, hearing dogs barking in the distance, they also bark.
8, life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing on the lifeboat.
9, there is no such thing as fate, everything is nothing more than testing, punishment or compensation.
10, shake your head at the difficulty, you have no right to nod and smile in front of victory.
11 Life is full of thorns, and the only way I know of it is to step quickly through those thorns. The more we think about the misfortunes we encounter, the more damaging they are to us.
12) Arrogance is nothing more than a mask of ignorance.
13 Whoever makes you absurd will make you cruel.
14 The most precious treasure of mankind is hope, which alleviates our troubles and paints a vision of pleasure in the enjoyment of the present.
15 In this world, people who are not worth talking to abound.
16 To succeed in this world, one must persevere to the end; the sword cannot be left in the hand until death.
17 Ignorance is the only soil for despotism.
18 I decided to be happy because I wanted to live longer.
19 This world, this stage full of pride and fallacy, stands full of sick idiots, talking about happiness.
20, thoughts are like beards, immature can not grow out.
21 We don't have much time in this world, and it is not worth crawling at the feet of a despicable villain.
22, laughter, can overcome everything, this is the most powerful weapon!
23 Appreciation is a wonderful thing, it makes the merits of others our own.
24 All those who enjoy all kinds of natural abilities are obviously equal... Not dependent on anything other than the law, this is the free man.
25 If you want to know who controls you, see who you can't criticize.
Aphorisms
1, what makes people tired is not the distant mountains, but a grain of sand in the shoes.
Volthé's Collected Essays on Philosophy and Ethics
(1) Only philosophers are worthy to write history.
In all nations, history is distorted by stories of nothingness, until finally philosophers come out to enlighten people.
When they finally reached darkness, they found that the human mind had been blinded by error for centuries and had a hard time waking up; they found celebrations, facts, and monuments piled on top of each other just to prove lies.
《Philosophy Communication》
1) Marriage is the only adventure that the timid person tries.
2) Man is a mixture of good and evil, pleasure and pain.
"The Honest Man"
God punished the villains and the devil drowned the innocent.
Your Majesty, you are truly helpful
In 1717, Voltaire was imprisoned for 11 months for ridiculing the regent, the Duke of Orléans. After his release from prison, the philosopher, who had suffered enough, knew that the man could not be offended, and went to thank him for his magnanimity. The regent was well aware of Voltaire's influence and was eager to turn him into a jade warrior. So both of them said a lot of just right words of apology. Voltaire said:
"Your Majesty, you have been so helpful and solved the problem of food and accommodation for me for such a long time, and I sincerely thank you once again. But in the future, you won't have to worry about this for me anymore. ”
Lunch with shoe shine
Voltaire had a servant who was faithful but lazy. One day the master said to him, "Bring me my shoes." The servant obeyed the order and brought leather shoes. Voltaire asked the servant, "Did you forget to polish your shoes this morning?" The servant replied, "I have not forgotten, sir." It's just that the streets are covered with dirt, and in two hours your shoes will be as dirty as they are now. Voltaire smiled, put on his leather shoes, and walked away without a word. But the servant chased after him from behind.
"Sir," said the servant, "what about the key?" ”
"What key?"
"The key to the cupboard, I'm going to have lunch in a minute!"
"My friend, what else do you want to eat for lunch?" After two hours of eating, you will be as hungry as you are now. Voltaire smiled at him.
All said wrong
Voltaire praised a contemporary writer. A friend pointed out on the spot: "I am very sorry to hear you praise this gentleman so generously. You know, this gentleman often says bad things about you behind your back, really. ”
Voltaire shrugged his shoulders and said, "So it seems that both of us are wrong." ”
I guess it must be chronic
Voltaire was a great coffee addict and drank an astonishing amount of coffee in his lifetime. A well-meaning man once warned him: "Don't drink this drink anymore, it is a chronic poison, you are committing suicide in slow times!" ”
"You're right, I think it must be chronic." The elderly philosopher said, "Otherwise, why have I been drinking for 65 years and not dying?" ”
Looking forward to it, please come quickly
One reader wrote Voltaire a long, overflowing letter expressing his admiration.
Voltaire wrote back, thanking him for his deep friendship. Since then, every ten days, this man has written a letter to Voltaire. Voltaire's reply was getting shorter and shorter. Finally, one day, the philosopher could not bear it any longer and replied with a letter of only one line: "Your Excellency, reader, I am dead. ”
A few days later, the man's letter arrived again, which read, "I am presented to the great Monsieur Voltaire under the Nine Springs." ”
Voltaire hurriedly replied: "I want to see through it, please come quickly." ”