What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and — 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 better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. 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

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. Abraham Lincoln War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. Friedrich Nietzsche Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln