Voltaire by Houdon
We know of no religion without prayers; even the Jews have them – even though they had no published formulas back in the days when they chanted their canticles in their synagogues, those arrived much later.
Voltaire by Houdon
B: What is natural law? (*)
A: The instinct that gives us a sense of justice.
Voltaire by Houdon
A serious geometrician once spoke to us thus: Is there nothing in literature mode dangerous than sophist rheotoricians?
They say that Marcus Brutus, before he killed himself, pronounced these words: “O Virtue! I believed that you were a real thing, but you are nothing but a vain phantom!…”
We desginate, by this name, remains or remaining body parts or clothing of a personage included, after death, by the church, in the blessed.
Magic is another science that is as plausible as astrology and the existence of genies. (Ivo@comment #9 corrects my translation. It should read: Magic is another science much more plausible than astrology or the doctrine of Genies.)
Voltaire by Houdon
Voltaire by Houdon
Prejudice is an opinion without judgement. Thus all over Earth we inspire in children all the opinions we want before they become able to judge them.
Voltaire by Houdon
The epicureans had no religion at all, advised keeping one’s distance from public affairs, study and cooperation.
Voltaire by Houdon
Eloquence was born before the rules of Rhetoric, as languages were born before Grammar.