Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.
VoltaireI also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.
VoltaireWe are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
VoltaireThere are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?
Voltaire