Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.
VoltaireWhosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.
VoltaireI have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe oneโs very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?
Voltaire