|
|
|
 |
QUOTATIONS by AUTHOR |
 |
|
 |
|
 Books by and about Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
 Click this icon to engrave the quote on mugs, bookmarks, t-shirts and much more
|
Truth
|
|
|
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
|
|
|
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
|
|
Understanding
|
|
|
When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when the man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), Candide, 1759
|
|
Virtue
|
|
|
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
|
|
Wisdom
|
|
|
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
|
|
Work
|
|
|
Work keeps at bay, three great evils -- boredom, vice and need.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
|
|
|
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
