Voltaire
  • The best is the enemy of the good.

  • The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

  • All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

  • In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

  • In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.