Voltaire

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only read more

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it.

The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it.

Common sense is not so common.

Common sense is not so common.

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

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