"Men are in general so tricky, so..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Change everything except your loves.”

“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”

“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”

“Nobody loves you when you're down and out.”

“Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.”

“Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.”

“Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.”

“I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.”

“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.”