Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.
VoltaireAdultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.
VoltaireYou see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!
Voltaire