I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.


Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 37 from Frederick to Voltaire (June 1738)

Frederick the Great Quotes

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd...

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd...

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd...

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd...