If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.