Voltaire

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and read more

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, read more

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.