Luxury

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People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

Voltaire

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Topic

Luxury Wealth Greed

Author

Voltaire

Source

Philosophical Dictionary

Language

French

Time

1764 1760s 18th century

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Original Citation

Voltaire [published anonymously]. "Luxe [Luxury]." Dictionnaire Philosophique Portatif. Geneva: Gabriel Grasset, 1764.

Current Citation

Voltaire. "Luxury." Philosophical Dictionary, translated by Theodore Besterman. Penguin Classics, 1984.