Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.
Love truth, and pardon error.
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.
Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire