Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or letter:
“If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.”
—Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
“Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)