Voltaire Quotes About Greatness
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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
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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.
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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.
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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
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