It is with books as with men—a very small number p — 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

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung Fear makes us feel our humanity. Benjamin Disraeli The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain. Leonardo da Vinci