Voltaire

“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.”

“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”

“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”

“What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.”

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”

“The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.”

“God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.”

“Nature has always had more force than education.”

“The ear is the avenue to the heart.”

“History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.”

“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.”

“He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.”

“Injustice in the end produces independence.”

“The best is the enemy of the good.”

“It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”

“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”

“All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.”

“To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.”

“To hold a pen is to be at war.”