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Quote of Voltaire - Time softens everything....


Biography - Voltaire:

François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.
Born: 1694 - Died: 1778
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

Time softens everything.


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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Le temps adoucit tout.

German
Die Zeit heilt alle Wunden.




See also 

See also...



Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Time is a great master; it regulates things well.




Quotes for: time


Quotes

Quotes about time:


In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.





Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.





Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato - Timaeus / 





What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.











Quotes

Voltaire also said...


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.





Love truth, but pardon error.





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.





What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.





Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.





The best is the enemy of good.












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