Ethan Sutton

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

“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, Candide, or, Optimism

“You're a bitter man," said Candide.
That's because I've lived," said Martin.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
― Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes