Satire lies about men of letters during their life, and eulogy after their death.
Quotes from A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness — Voltaire
1694–1778 France
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Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature, and embroidered by imagination.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
All the passions die with the years; self-love alone never dies.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Jest with life: for that only is it good.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Use, do not abuse : neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Laws should be clear, uniform, precise : to interpret them is nearly always to corrupt them.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
A republic is not founded on virtue, but on the ambition of its citizens.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent one.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
All the reasoning of man is not worth one sentiment of woman.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
This world is but a lottery of goods, of ranks, of dignities, of rights.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Can we not seek the author of life but in the obscure labyrinth of theology?
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which tempests emerge when pricked.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
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