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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies very ridiculous!" God has granted it to me.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire ,

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. - Voltaire ,

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.

Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.

There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times.

Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Wishers and woulders be small householders.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.