Voltaire Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Loss, Aggravation

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

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Age, Spirit

• Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

  Voltaire

  Sleep, Exercise, Dark

• The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

  Voltaire

  Dark, Simple, Two

• 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

• Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Time, Philosophical

• 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

• A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

  Voltaire

  Women, Inspiration, Secret

• 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”

• I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

  Voltaire

  Health, Doctors, Medicine

  Letter to Charles Feriol 6 November (1767)

• 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

• If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

  Voltaire

  Names, Mad, Wish

• It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

  Voltaire

  Age, Opinion, Popular Opinion

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

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin