Maxioms by Voltaire (francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Injustice in the end produces independence.
[Fr., L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.]
Injustice in the end produces independence.
[Fr., L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.]
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties read more
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties
are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but
the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon,
or a didactic work.
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies
about them when they die.
[Fr., La read more
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies
about them when they die.
[Fr., La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et
l'eloge ment apres leur mort.]
Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the
Turks are even sicker.
Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the
Turks are even sicker.
Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire read more
Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
