Quotes by Voltaire

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists an >>

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty. >>

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music. >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little wh >>

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who >>

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be >>

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire