Voltaire

“Fear follows crime and is its punishment.”

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

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”

“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”

“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”

“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”

“We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.”

“Better is the enemy of good.”

“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.”

“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”

“The superfluous, a very necessary thing.”

“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”

“My life is a struggle.”

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”

“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”

“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.”

“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”

“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.”

“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”