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The quote has its roots in a biography by Evelyn Beatrice Hall published in 1906, more than a century after Voltaire’s death. In it, she tries to sum up Voltaire’s thoughts on freedom of ...

The author was paraphrasing how she thought Voltaire felt about a certain topic. Everyone just decided the quote was real. 3. "Standing on the shoulders of giants" - not Sir Isaac Newton Perhaps ...

These “life is short” quotes will remind you to be like Ibsen and get the last word in while you can. A priest asked Voltaire if he wanted to denounce Satan and all his works—Voltaire ...

Voltaire's correspondence is arguably his masterpiece. No one would now suggest, as scholars once did, that 'it is to be read, not to be studied'; nonetheless the study of the correspondence poses ...

Rep. Thomas Massie shared a quote on Twitter he misattributed to French philosopher Voltaire. It was actually said by an American neo-Nazi. The quote shared by Massie was traced to Kevin Alfred ...

After former employees at Voltaire Beach House in Ocean Beach accused ownership of not paying them, the restaurant shuttered its doors last week.

Voltaire's eighteenth-century biographer Theophile Duvernet records an exchange from 1713 when the future philosophe, just 19 years old and completing his studies at the prestigious Jesuit Collège ...