top of page

"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."

Voltaire, French Writer

17

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Man, Men, Land, Sea

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Man, Men, Women, Fortune, Pretty

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Man, Men, Truth, May, Order

"Let no such man be trusted."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Man, Mind, Sight

"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Man, Men, Gods, Universe

Explore more quotes by Voltaire

"Business is the salt of life."

"You are very harsh.''I have seen the world."

Reality, Experience, Life, Truth

"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce."

Friendship, Marriage, Soul, Divorce

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

Death, Life, Fear, Conscience

"The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error."

Progress, Error, Man, Ocean

"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."

Family, Father, Man, Oak, Shadow

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

Thought, Thoughts, Words

"Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable."

"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

Wisdom, Numbers, Sound

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

Faith, Power, Reason

bottom of page