What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.
Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion