“Critique de l'Œdipe . Première lettre à M. de Genonville . Footnote to second edition. Tr. Harbottle and Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian , 2nd ed. (1904) p. 167. Compare: Mothe Le Vayer”
Voltaire
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“On doit des égards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la vérité. We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.”
“Oedipe , act II, scene IV”
“La vertu s'avilit à se justifier. Virtue is debased by self”
“If I had had more time, this letter would have been shorter. Written by Voltaire in an over”
“L'amour est de toutes les passions la plus forte, parce qu'elle attaque à la fois la tête, le cœur et le corps. Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the body. Le Dernier Volume Des Œuvres De Voltaire: Contes”
“Lettres inédites de Voltaire,”
“Thoughts, remarks and observations”
“L'homme doit être content, dit”
“Commentaires sur Corneille”