I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a l — 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

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus A hungry man is not a free man. Adlai Stevenson Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. Friedrich Nietzsche