When Voltaire said “I love you with all my heart, but my soul is still full of fright at that which I have seen and experienced,” and “what horrors among a people who sing and dance,” and “I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life,” and “if there be one of them all, that has not cursed his life many a time, that has not frequently looked upon himself as the unhappiest of mortals.”