If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer
VoltaireAll the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.
VoltaireTime is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.
VoltaireI should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.
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