"Why, since we are always complaining of..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.”

“Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.”

“The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.”

“If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer”

“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.”

“Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!”

“The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.”

“It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.”

“Agonies are one of my changes of garments.”