Alphabetical Index of Authors

1. The secret of being boring is to say everything.
2. Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
3. Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
4. The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
5. To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
6. If God made us in His image, we have certainly returned the compliment.
7. When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
8. The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
9. History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
10. To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
11. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
12. Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
13. All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.
14. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
15. I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.