A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order.


Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 48 from Frederick to Voltaire (1740-01-06)

Frederick the Great Quotes

A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order.

A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order.

A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order.

A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order.