People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and… — Voltaire
People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
In the original French
On a declame contre le luxe depuis deux mille ans, en vers et en prose, et on l'a toujours aime.
1764
★ 3.7Provenance
Current citation
Voltaire. "Luxury." Philosophical Dictionary, translated by Theodore Besterman. Penguin Classics, 1984.
Original citation
Voltaire [published anonymously]. "Luxe [Luxury]." Dictionnaire Philosophique Portatif. Geneva: Gabriel Grasset, 1764.
