True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
To hold a pen is to be at war.
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.