Voltaire Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778
Birthday: November 21
Death: May 30
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.
topic: Running, Cutting, Pirate, Bulgarians, Candide, Gauntlet, Buttocks, Hard Questions
