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.

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.