If God did not exist, it would be necessary to inv — Voltaire

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one. It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ‘The Leningrad Notebooks’ (c .1735–50) in T. Besterman (ed.) Voltaire’s Notebook (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455 When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Who has not the spirit of his age, Of his age has all the unhappiness. 12 Letter to Madame du Châtelet

To the mean all becomes mean. Friedrich Nietzsche Only the educated are free Epicteto It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. Benjamin Franklin In quiet places, reason abounds. Adlai Stevenson