Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness. — Samuel Johnson

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten. ♥ 2 [ On the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland :] Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see. I consider that in no government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. If a sovereign oppresses his people to a great degree, they will rise and cut off his head. There is a remedy in human nature agains… Read more → They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. of the Letters of Lord Chesterfield

Wit is educated insolence. Aristóteles Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. Albert Camus Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. David Hume 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 Voltaire