Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.
All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.
Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.