He wrote: "The great errors of the past are useful in many ways. One cannot remind oneself too often of crimes and disasters. These, no matter what people say, can be forestalled."
"The great errors of the past are useful in many ways. One cannot remind oneself too often of crimes and disasters. These, no matter what people say, can be forestalled.? French philosopher and writer Francois Marie Arouet was born in 1694 and used the pen name Voltaire. The author of Candide (1759) and the Philosophical Dictionary (1764), Voltaire?s works often attacked injustice and intolerance and epitomized the Age of Enlightenment. He died in 1778.
