Poetry Quote by Voltaire

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

— Voltaire

“luxury   generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God,”

— John Calvin

“What is the first anesthetic? Wealth. And if I take your wealth? Necessities. And if I demolish your home, burn your fields? Acknowledgement. And…

— Omar El Akkad

“good works gathered in a thousand ages, such as deeds of generosity, or offerings to the blissful ones, a single flash of anger shatters…

— Shantideva

“When evening comes, I return to my home, and I go into my study; and on the thresh-hold, I take off my everyday clothes,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“For in the latter days of that passionate life that lay now so far behind him, the conception of a free and equal manhood…

— H.G. Wells

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur…

— José Saramago

“It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Words, displaced and mutilated words, words of others, were the poor pittance left him by the hours and the centuries.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.”

— Philip Jenkins

“Luxury cannot be obtained other than by enslaving other people.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Do not speak glibly of virtue. Nothing shall change-nothing-so long as each individual awaits preferment rather than embodying beneficence in himself; so long as…

— M.T. Anderson