Famous quotes containing the word marie:
“After the earthquake, which had destroyed three-quarters of Lisbon, the countrys wise men had found no more efficacious means of preventing total ruin than to give the people a fine auto-da-fé.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (16941778)
“The superfluous, a very necessary thing.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (16941778)
“Ce corps qui sappelait et qui sappelle encore le saint empire romain nétait en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire. This agglomeration which called itself and still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (16941778)
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