My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do. Voltaire
What is this optimism?" said Cacambo. "Alas!" said Candide, "it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong. Voltaire
The register, the attorneys, and bailiffs, went to his house with great formality to carry him back his four hundred ounces. They only retained three hundred and ninety-eight of them to defray the expenses of justice; and then their servants demanded their fees. Voltaire
Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation. Voltaire
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. Voltaire