God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.
But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.
For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.