Voltaire Quotes About Age
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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'
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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.
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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.
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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.
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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
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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.
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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.
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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.
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