It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.
VoltaireVirtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.
VoltaireI am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.
Voltaire