"The more estimable the offender, the greater..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.”

“Work is often the father of pleasure.”

“When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.”

“When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free.”

“And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.”

“Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.”

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!”

“Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.”

“In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.”