Author: Voltaire

Cites

• Virgil (1)
  • IN: Zadig; Or, The Book of Fate: An Oriental History (1747) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Quo fata trahunt, retrahuntque sequamur. Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum, Tendimus in Latium.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy

Cited by

• Thomas Bernhard (1)
  • IN: Woodcutters (1984) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• John Carter (1)
  • IN: Last Judgement (2014) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Wena Poon (1)
  • IN: The Proper Care of Foxes (2009) Fiction, Anthology, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Il faut cultiver notre jardin.
    FROM: Candide, (1759), Book, France
• Cara Black (1)
  • IN: Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis (2007) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• C.J Box (1)
  • IN: Stone Cold (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It’s not inequality which is the real misfortune, it’s dependence
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Ian Rankin (1)
  • IN: Fleshmarket Close (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In memory of two friends, Fiona and Annie, much missed. It is to Scotland that we look for our idea of civilisation.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Sophie Loubiere (1)
  • IN: The Stone Boy (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is better to save a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
    FROM: Zadig, or The Book of Fate, (1747), Short story, France
• Colin Dexter (1)
  • IN: The Wench Is Dead (1989) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thought depends absolutely on the stomach; but, in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers
    FROM: Voltaire, in a letter to d'Alemberi, (1770), Letter, France
• Ted Kosmatka (1)
  • IN: Prophet of Bones (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others like?
    FROM: Candide, (1759), Novel, France
• Jess Walter (1)
  • IN: Beautiful Ruins (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architectures for wild beasts to fight in.
    FROM: The Complete Letters, (1880), Book, France
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1)
  • IN: Queen Mab (1813) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Avia Pieridum peragro loca, nullius ante Trita solo; juvat integros accedere fonteis; Atque haurire: juvatque novos decerpere flores.
    FROM: Correspondance de Voltaire, (None), Book, France
• Vitomil Zupan (1)
  • IN: Minuet for Guitar (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Each marches gaily to crime, under the banner of his own saint.
    FROM: Dictionary of Philosophy, (1764), Book, France
• Charles Mccarry (1)
  • IN: The Tears Of Autumn (1974) Spy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “To the living, one owes consideration; to the dead, only the truth.”
    FROM: Lettres Sur Oedipe, (1719), Letter, France
• Patricia Cornwell (1)
  • IN: The Scarpetta Factor (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
    FROM: NULL, (1785), [NA], France
• Matthew Plampin (1)
  • IN: Illumination (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is not enough to conquer; one must also know how to seduce.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Arthur Hailey (2)
  • IN: Detective (1997) Fiction, Mystery, British
    EPIGRAPH: Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Richard Montanari (1)
  • IN: Kiss Of Evil (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If there be demons, there must be demonesses.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Stephen P. Kiernan (1)
  • IN: The Baker's Secret (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It takes twenty years to bring man from his vegetable state inside the womb... to the stage where he begins to grow into maturity. It took thirty centuries to learn something about his structure. It would take an eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes only an instant to kill him.
    FROM: NULL, (1764), NULL, France
• C. B. George (1)
  • IN: The Death of Rex Nhongo (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "All that is very well," answered Candide. "But let us cultivate our garden."
    FROM: Candide, (1759), Novel, France
• Jenny Colgan (2)
  • IN: The Little Shop of Happy Ever After (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
    FROM: "Liberty of the Press" in Dictionnaire philosophique, (1764), Article, France
  • IN: The Bookshop on the Corner (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Kelly Bensimon (1)
  • IN: A Dangerous Age (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
    FROM: The Maid of Orleans, (1899), Poem, France
• Stephen Cole (1)
  • IN: The Bloodline Cipher (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Ellen Wittlinger (1)
  • IN: Blind Faith (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
    FROM: Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs, (1770), Essay, France
• Oliver Pötzsch (1)
  • IN: The Ludwig Conspiracy (2011) Thriller, German
    EPIGRAPH: History is the lie that is commonly agreed upon.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Christopher Moore (1)
  • IN: Lamb (2002) Fiction, Humour, American
    EPIGRAPH: God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Yasmine Galenorn (1)
  • IN: Panther Prowling (2015) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: Clever tyrants are never punished.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Ruthanne Lum McCunn (1)
  • IN: Thousand Pieces of Gold (1981) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There is no history, only fictions of varying degrees of plausibility.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Nora Roberts (1)
  • IN: Suite 606 (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One owes respect to the living; to the dead one owes only the truth.
    FROM: Letter to M. de Grenonville, (1719), Letter, NULL
• Frances Burney (1)
  • IN: Traits of Nature (1812) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Le triomphe de la raison, c'est de ien vivre avec ceux qui n'en ont pas.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Eliot Warburton (1)
  • IN: The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Volume I. (1846) Non-Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Imposteur à la Mecque, mais Prophète à Médine
    FROM: Mahomet, (1736), Play, France