Voltaire Quotes About Greatness

Quotes about: Greatness

• So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

  Voltaire

  Country, Men, Greatness

• Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

  Voltaire

  Country, War, Greatness

  Voltaire (1949). “The portable Voltaire”

• Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Motivation

• True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

  Voltaire

  Powerful, Greatness, Understanding

• Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

  Voltaire

  Greatness, Companion, Inseparable

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.133

• Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

  Voltaire

  Independent, Greatness, Men

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1850, e-artnow

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