What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
VoltaireThe most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.
VoltaireYou despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire