There ought to be moments of tranquility in great works, as in life after the experience of passions, but not moments of disgust.

--Voltaire


Government needs both shepherds and butchers.

--Voltaire


The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

--Attributed to Voltaire


The best is the enemy of the good.

--Italian proverb