Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.