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Voltaire Quotes about Age

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

Voltaire
Age, Opinion, Popular Opinion
Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.135

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Voltaire
Making Love, Age, Youth

We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

Voltaire
Age, Levels, Rise Above
Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.61

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

Voltaire
Mistake, Errors, Age
Voltaire, John G. Gorton (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.298

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Voltaire
Birthday, Age, Spirit

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Voltaire
Life, Retirement, Age
Voltaire (1949). “The portable Voltaire”

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