Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.
VoltaireSince the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
VoltaireMartin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
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