Quotes by Voltaire

Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness. >>

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. >>

Work is often the father of pleasure. >>

Quotations about Translation

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the tran >>

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. >>

It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discov >>

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Voltaire