Voltaire Quotes About Neighbors

Quotes about: Neighbors

• 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.

  Voltaire

  Country, Men, Greatness

• No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

  Voltaire

  Burning, Opinion, Neighbor

• Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

  Voltaire

  Country, War, Greatness

  Voltaire (1949). “The portable Voltaire”

• It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

  Voltaire

  Book, Fire, Light

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4316, Delphi Classics

• If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

  Voltaire

  Cheer, Mean, Eating

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.186, Penguin

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