"Every man is a creature of the..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”

“Writing is the painting of the voice.”

“Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.”

“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.”

“London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.”

“It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.”

“What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.”

“If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.”

“[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”