history of this quote “The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man, that…he never conceives himself otherwise than as a member of a body.” by John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill
“Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.” Ronald Reagan
“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
