Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
Friends should be preferred to kings.
The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost