Voltaire

Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time…

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them…

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass…

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large…

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it…

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to…

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him…

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination…

It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only…

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is…

Society therefore is an ancient as the world…

I hate women because they always know where things are…

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable…

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are…

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth…