Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
VoltaireFools admire everything in an author of reputation.
VoltaireWhen his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?
VoltaireI know this love, that sovereign of hearts, that soul of our souls; yet it never cost me more than a kiss and twenty kicks on the backside. How could this beautiful cause produce in you an effect so abominable.
VoltaireTags: love
but whether he be, or whether he be not, I want bread.
Voltairemankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another.
VoltaireTags: man
Only cut off a buttock of each of those ladies,' said he,'and you'll fare extremely well; if you must go to it again, there will be the same entertainment a few days hence; heaven will accept of so charitable an action, and send you relief.
Voltairethe women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.
VoltaireIs politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
VoltaireTags: contant-d-orval volume
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
VoltaireTags: nationalism war
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