Voltaire Quote

It does not depend upon us to avoid poverty, but it does depend upon us to make that poverty respected.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


It does not depend upon us to avoid poverty, but it does depend upon us to make that poverty respected.

It does not depend upon us to avoid poverty, but it does depend upon us to make that poverty respected.

It does not depend upon us to avoid poverty, but it does depend upon us to make that poverty respected.

It does not depend upon us to avoid poverty, but it does depend upon us to make that poverty respected.