“She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.” Gustave Flaubert
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?” Voltaire
“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.” Voltaire
“Do you believe that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?” Voltaire
history of this quote “If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.” by John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill
“A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for…is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free.” John Stuart Mill
“The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.” John Stuart Mill
“I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.” John Stuart Mill
“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.” John Stuart Mill
