Author of quotes: Voltaire

I fear ... that God's governors too much abuse the patience of the people - those in the end may grow wiser.

To do something tedious and long is wrong. Surely there is a way to make it easier and faster.

It is not proved that the risk - a noble cause, but noble cause is almost always a risk.

To be too observant sometimes very dangerous.

Events in this world cannot happen, as would most reasonable people.

Better to take the risk and justify the guilty than condemn the innocent.

Ukraine is a "Krai Cossacks." <...> Ukraine has always sought freedom.
l'ukraine pays des Cosaques. <...> L'ukraine a toujours aspiré à être libre.

Against his house lived one of Arimas whose coarse face bore the imprint of an evil soul.

... and soon acquired a skill to find a thousand differences where other men see only uniformity.

... his natural inclinations, beautiful in themselves, were still more advanced education. Despite the wealth and youth, he knew how to subdue their passions, no matter what is never claimed, considered himself always right and knew how to respect human weakness.

Twice a year we give here only such linen trousers, and that all our clothes. If shareware a Negro gets a finger in the millstone, he cut off the whole hand; if he thinks to escape, he cut off the leg. Happened to me both. That's the price we pay for something that you have in Europe, was sugar. Meanwhile, when my mother sold me on the Guinea shore for ten Patagonian coins, she told me: "my Darling child, bless our fetishes, read them always, they will bring you happiness; you had the honor to become the slave of our white masters, and, however, gave the wealth of their parents." Alas! I don't know if I gave them wealth, but I happiness is not amassed. Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times happier than we; the Dutch priests, who drew me into their faith, telling me every Sunday that we are all descendants of Adam, black and white. I'm not good at genealogy, but if the preachers are telling the truth, we really are all akin to each other. But just think if it's so horrible to treat their own relatives?

- How! You have no monks who teaches all quarrel with each other, control, conspire and burn dissidents?
- I dare to hope, we're not crazy, the old man said, - we all share the same views and do not understand what your monks.

The prisoners and those that captured them - the soldiers, sailors, black, brown, white, brown and finally, my captain, all were killed; I was lying half-dead under a pile of dead. Similar scenes occurred, as everyone knows, in the space of more than three hundred leagues, but no one forgot five times a day to pray, according to the establishment of Mohammed.

To be loved - that is the happiness of the sage.