Happy Birthday VOLTAIRE !!!

[hippiechick]

:toast: :hug: :toast: :hug: :toast:


Y'made us here in Indy proud this past year, Gramps !!

[Trajan]

1. Chuckles ... HooRAY for the Skeptic ! ...

François Marie Arouet de Voltaire. (1694–1778)


1
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
Epître à l’Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs. cxi.
2
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Dialogue xiv. Le Chapon et la Poularde (l763).
3
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
L’Ingénu. Chap. x. (1767.)
4
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier:
Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Merope. Act i. Sc. 3.
5
In the best of possible worlds the château of monseigneur the baron was the most beautiful of châteaux, and madame the best of possible baronesses.
Candide. Chap. i.
6
In this country it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
Candide. Chap. xxiii.
7
It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions. 7
Letter to M. le Riche, Feb. 6, 1770.
8
Love truth, but pardon error.
Discours sur l’Homme. Discours 3.


Happy Birthday Francois Marie Arouet !!! ...

[DODI]

2. Is this the best of all possible worlds?

That book, Candide, has had such a huge impact on me. Happy B-Day Voltaire!

[Khephra]

3. Happy Birthday, Dude!

:toast: :toast: :toast:

[bhunt70]

4. my favorite author!

[PragMantisT]

5. All is for the best

in this the best of all possible worlds
thanks Dr Pangloss

[Voltaire]

6. Thank you to Hippiechick and Khephra

The two that got me in the mess I am in today!!!!! :toast:

Seriously, thanks for the good wishes. I only hope I live long enough to be as witty and wise and prolific as Monsieur Arrouete whose name I have had the audacity to take for my own. Too all my friends in Indy and elsewhere. . .

AUX BARRICADES!!!! See you out there!