Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.
VoltaireIt 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.
VoltaireLuxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.
VoltaireIt must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.
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