A Quote by Voltaire

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

Voltaire

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients!

Girolamo Savonarola

If we succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone sacrificed for us.

Denis Waitley

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Diogenes Laertius

Sometimes what's recommended to the people is something different than what's recommended to the leaders, because I have been recommended to use hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis and the probability of this harming you is very low.

Nayib Bukele

God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.

Ezra Taft Benson

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

Charles Lamb

Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.

Diogenes Laertius

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

Jonathan Edwards

A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins.

Salman Rushdie

In ancient times they sacrificed the virgins. Men were not about to sacrifice the sluts!

Bill Maher

Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil.

Alphonsus Liguori

Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.