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What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths.

de Voltaire (1786) by Louis Mayeul Chaudon, p.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire we fetch it from our neighbour, kindle it as home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. Boyardo has imitated Pulci, and Ariofio Boyardo. The most original writers, he said, borrowed one from another. Pope et quelques autres poètes fameux,' Lettres philosophiques (1756 edition) It is with books as with the fire in our hearths we go to a neighbor to get the embers and light it when we return home, pass it on to others, and it belongs to everyone Several English writers have copied us without saying one word of the matter. Metastasio has taken the greatest part of his operas from our French tragedies. Miguel de Cervantes makes his Don Quixote a fool but pray is Orlando any other? It would puzzle one to decide whether knight errantry has been made more ridiculous by the grotesque painting of Cervantes, than by the luxuriant imagination of Ariosto. The most original minds borrowed from one another. Boiardo imitated Pulci, Ariosto imitated Boiardo. The idea of The Persian Letters was taken from The Turkish Spy.

Il en est des livres comme du feu de nos foyers on va prendre ce feu chez son voisin, on l'allume chez soi, on le communique à d'autres, et il appartient à tous. Plusieurs auteurs anglais nous ont copiés, et n'en ont rien dit. Métastase a pris la plupart de ses opéras dans nos tragédies françaises.

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Michel Cervantes fait un fou de son don Quichotte mais Roland est-il autre chose qu'un fou? Il serait difficile de décider si la chevalerie errante est plus tournée en ridicule par les peintures grotesques de Cervantes que par la féconde imagination de l'Arioste. Les esprits les plus originaux empruntent les uns des autres. Le Boiardo a imité le Pulci, l'Arioste a imité le Boiardo. L'idée des Lettres persanes est prise de celle de l'Espion turc.

Leonard Tancock (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1980): p. Letters on England, letter 6, 'On the Presbyterians' Trans.If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.Dees, Routledge, London and New York, (2004) p. Letters on England, letter 6, 'On the Presbyterians' as quoted in Trust and Tolerance, Richard H.Here the Presbyterian trusts the Anabaptist and the Anglican accepts a promise from the Quaker. Here Jew, Mohammedan and Christian deal with each other as though they were all of the same faith, and only apply the word infidel to people who go bankrupt. Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see representatives from all nations gathered together for the utility of men.Letter addressed to 'un premier commis' (20 June 1733), from Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance, vol.The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture for wild beasts to fight in.Les anciens Romains élevaient des prodiges d'architecture pour faire combattre des bêtes.'Commentaires sur Corneille,' Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire (1827).One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.On parle toujours mal quand on n'a rien à dire.As quoted in Beautiful Thoughts from French and Italian Authors (1866) edited by Craufurd Tait Ramage, p.Men are equal it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes them differ.Ériphyle Act II, scene I (1732) these lines were also later used in Voltaire's Mahomet, Act I, scene IV (1741).All mortals are equal it is not their birth,īut virtue itself that makes the difference.Les mortels sont égaux ce n'est pas la naissance,Ĭ'est la seule vertu qui fait la différence.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

L'homme est libre au moment qu'il veut l'être.La Henriade, chant troisième, l.41 (1722).Quite a heavy weight, a name too quickly famous.C'est un poids bien pesant qu'un nom trop tôt fameux.We should be considerate to the living to the dead we owe only the truth.On doit des égards aux vivants on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.Virtue is debased by self-justification.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.