The best way to be boring is to include everything.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.