What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.