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Thursday, Feb 16th, 2012
The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.    Voltaire

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.


 

 Voltaire


∞02:16 am, by thischarmingman19811 note
[Voltaire]

Friday, Jan 06th, 2012
On his 62nd birthday—his last birthday, a painful phrase to write—I had been with him and Carol and other comrades at the Houston home of his friend Michael Zilkha, and we had been photographed standing on either side of a bust of Voltaire. That photograph is now one of my most treasured possessions: me and the two Voltaires, one of stone and one still very much alive. Now they are both gone, and one can only try to believe, as the philosopher Pangloss insisted to Candide in the elder Voltaire’s masterpiece, that everything is for the best “in this best of all possible worlds.” It doesn’t feel like that today. Salman Rushdie

On his 62nd birthday—his last birthday, a painful phrase to write—I had been with him and Carol and other comrades at the Houston home of his friend Michael Zilkha, and we had been photographed standing on either side of a bust of Voltaire. That photograph is now one of my most treasured possessions: me and the two Voltaires, one of stone and one still very much alive. Now they are both gone, and one can only try to believe, as the philosopher Pangloss insisted to Candide in the elder Voltaire’s masterpiece, that everything is for the best “in this best of all possible worlds.” It doesn’t feel like that today.

Salman Rushdie


∞07:59 pm, by thischarmingman198116 notes
[Christopher Hitchens] [Salman Rushdie] [Voltaire]

Monday, Aug 16th, 2010
Según el derecho de gentes, el matrimonio es un contrato que los católicos romanos convirtieron en sacramento, pero el sacramento y el contrato son dos cosas diferentes: éste produce efectos civiles, y aquél, efectos eclesiásticos. Así, cuando el contrato está conforme con el derecho de gentes, produce todos los efectos civiles en tanto que la falta de sacramento sólo priva de las gracias espirituales.
Voltaire

∞02:49 pm, by thischarmingman19812 notes
[Voltaire]

Yeah!