Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

It is more likely," said he, "mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty-pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

I know this love, that sovereign of hearts, that soul of our souls; yet it never cost me more than a kiss and twenty kicks on the backside. How could this beautiful cause produce in you an effect so abominable.

All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.