"Everything can be borne except contempt...." - Quote by Voltaire

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

“Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.”

“Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.”

“Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.”

“Thou art a Castilian King urinal!”

“The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.”

“I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.”

“When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face? And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd: For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me leave, for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.”

“Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.”