I 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.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

He is lifeless that is faultless.