It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.
VoltaireIt is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
VoltaireIt is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicรฆan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.
Voltaire