Voltaire

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.